DBMS > Kdb vs. RocksDB vs. TempoIQ vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison Kdb vs. RocksDB vs. TempoIQ vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

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Description

High performance Time Series DBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	7.73
Rank	#45	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#361	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Website

kx.com

rocksdb.org

tempoiq.com (offline)

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

code.kx.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Facebook, Inc.

TempoIQ

Transwarp

Initial release

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2013

2012

Current release

3.6, May 2018

9.4.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

BSD

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

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

C++ API
Java API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

simple authentication-based access control

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Specific characteristics

Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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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

kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing models

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