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DBMS > Kdb vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Kdb vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Titan

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NameKdb  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionHigh performance Time Series DBMSA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith KDB.AI
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score8.00
Rank#56  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score3.97
Rank#96  Overall
#18  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#48  Relational DBMS
Websitekx.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­nosql.htmltitan.thinkaurelius.com
Technical documentationcode.kx.comdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcOracleAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release2000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320112012
Current release3.6, May 201822.3, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageqJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyes
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (q)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyes infowith viewsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingwith Hadoop integrationyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infooff heap cache
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and rolesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
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KdbOracle NoSQLTitan
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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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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