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DBMS > Kdb vs. Riak TS vs. Spark SQL vs. SQream DB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Kdb vs. Riak TS vs. Spark SQL vs. SQream DB vs. Transbase

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NameKdb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance Time Series DBMSRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processinga GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational 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
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitekx.comspark.apache.org/­sqlsqream.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationcode.kx.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.sqream.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesApache Software FoundationSQream TechnologiesTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032015201420171987
Current release3.6, May 20183.0.0, September 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232022.1.6, December 2022Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageqErlangScalaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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
Secondary indexesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'restrictednonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (q)yes, limitedSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native 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
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsErlangnouser defined functions in Pythonyes
Triggersyes infowith viewsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingyes, utilizing Spark Corehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factornonenoneSource-replica replication
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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between datasets can be storednonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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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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