DBMS > Kdb vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb vs. TempoIQ vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison Kdb vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb vs. TempoIQ vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

High performance Time Series DBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

kx.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

tempoiq.com (offline)

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

code.kx.com

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

STS Soft SC

TempoIQ

Initial release

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2009

2011

2012

2023

Current release

3.6, May 2018

3.2.0, December 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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'

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (q)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

none

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

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

yes, using Riak Security

simple authentication-based access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenarios

tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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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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