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Name

Description

High performance Time Series DBMS

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	6.79
Rank	#50	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	2.73
Rank	#94	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Website

kx.com

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

code.kx.com

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2010

Current release

3.6, May 2018

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (q)

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

with views

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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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

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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