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System Properties Comparison Kdb vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. searchxml vs. TerarkDB vs. TypeDB

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NameKdb  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance Time Series DBMSWidely used in-process key-value storeDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Native XML DBMS
Search engine
Key-value storeGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitekx.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbtypedb.com
Technical documentationcode.kx.comdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKctypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracleinformationpartners gmbhByteDance, originally TerarkVaticle
Initial release2000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20031994201520162016
Current release3.6, May 201818.1.40, May 20201.02.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageqC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
WindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (q)yes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
C++ API
Java API
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC++
Java
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes infoon the application servernono
Triggersyes infowith viewsyes infoonly for the SQL APInonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnonenonenoneSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnoneMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnononoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDmultiple readers, single writernoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesnoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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KdbOracle Berkeley DBsearchxmlTerarkDBTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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TypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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TypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Life sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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