DBMS > Kdb vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Kdb vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB vs. TDengine

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Name

Description

High performance Time Series DBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	7.71
Rank	#49	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Website

kx.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.snowflake.com

swaydb.simer.au

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

code.kx.com

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Oracle

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Simer Plaha

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2007

2014

2018

2019

Current release

3.6, May 2018

14.1, August 2023

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

.Net
C++
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Live Events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

configurable

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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