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System Properties Comparison Kdb vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Pinecone vs. Prometheus

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NameKdb  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance Time Series DBMSA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.A managed, cloud-native vector databaseOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document storeVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websitekx.comwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbwww.pinecone.ioprometheus.io
Technical documentationcode.kx.comdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcPerconaPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003201520192015
Current release3.6, May 20183.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoGPL Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageqC++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, BooleanNumeric data only
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.yesnonono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (q)nonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
proprietary protocol using JSONRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Python.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJavaScriptno
Triggersyes infowith viewsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infovia In-Memory Enginenono
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and rolesno
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KdbPercona Server for MongoDBPineconePrometheus
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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