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System Properties Comparison Kdb vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB vs. Teradata vs. XTDB

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NameKdb  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance Time Series DBMSDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score45.33
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitekx.comrethinkdb.comswaydb.simer.auwww.teradata.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationcode.kx.comrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.teradata.comwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Simer PlahaTeradataJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032009201819842019
Current release3.6, May 20182.4.1, August 2020Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 20191.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageqC++ScalaClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Linux
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynoyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.yesnonoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesnoyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (q)nonoyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelno
Triggersyes infowith viewsClient-side triggers through changefeedsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding inforange basednoneSharding infoHashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-document operationsAtomic execution of operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsyes infousers and table-level permissionsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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KdbRethinkDBSwayDBTeradataXTDB infoformerly named Crux
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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