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System Properties Comparison Kdb vs. RethinkDB

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Name

Description

High performance Time Series DBMS

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	6.58
Rank	#54	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	2.30
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

kx.com

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

code.kx.com

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2009

Current release

3.6, May 2018

2.4.1, August 2020

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

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

with views

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

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