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DBMS > Kdb vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine vs. StarRocks vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Kdb vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine vs. StarRocks vs. TigerGraph

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NameKdb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance Time Series DBMSDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational 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
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score1.04
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitekx.comwww.sadasengine.comwww.starrocks.iowww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationcode.kx.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_introdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSADAS s.r.l.The Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023
Initial release2000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032009200620202017
Current release3.6, May 20183.2.0, December 20228.02.5.3, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageqErlangC++C++, JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
AIX
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'restrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (q)noyesyesSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
MySQL protocol
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
JavaC++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsErlangnouser defined functionsyes
Triggersyes infowith viewsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'nono
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsRole-based access control
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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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