DBMS > Kdb vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Kdb vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake vs. TDengine

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Name

Description

High performance Time Series DBMS

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

kx.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.snowflake.com

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

code.kx.com

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

SiteWhere

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2010

2014

2019

Current release

3.6, May 2018

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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'

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

with views

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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