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System Properties Comparison Kdb vs. RisingWave vs. searchxml vs. TerarkDB vs. TypeDB

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NameKdb  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance Time Series DBMSA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Key-value storeGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
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
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitekx.comwww.risingwave.com/­databasewww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbtypedb.com
Technical documentationcode.kx.comdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKctypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcRisingWave Labsinformationpartners gmbhByteDance, originally TerarkVaticle
Initial release2000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032022201520162016
Current release3.6, May 20181.2, September 20231.02.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageqRustC++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
WindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesStandard SQL-types and JSONyesnoyes
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.yesnoyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (q)yesnonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
C++ API
Java API
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC++
Java
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsUDFs in Python or Javayes infoon the application servernono
Triggersyes infowith viewsnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnonenoneSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnoneMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnononoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonomultiple readers, single writernoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsUsers and RolesDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesnoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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KdbRisingWavesearchxmlTerarkDBTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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TypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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TypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Life sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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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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Apache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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