DBMS > Kdb vs. SWC-DB vs. WakandaDB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Kdb vs. SWC-DB vs. WakandaDB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

High performance Time Series DBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Wide column store

Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

kx.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

wakanda.github.io

yanza.com

Technical documentation

code.kx.com

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Alex Kashirin

Wakanda SAS

Yanza

Initial release

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2020

2012

2015

Current release

3.6, May 2018

0.5, April 2021

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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'

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (q)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C++

JavaScript

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

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

ACID

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

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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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