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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. Kdb vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

High performance Time Series DBMS

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

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

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

kx.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

code.kx.com

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

SiteWhere

Initial release

1991

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2010

Current release

5.7

3.6, May 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language (q)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

with views

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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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

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Licensing and pricing models

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