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System Properties Comparison Kdb vs. SpaceTime vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

High performance Time Series DBMS

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	6.99
Rank	#51	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

kx.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

code.kx.com

Developer

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Mireo

Teradata

Initial release

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2020

2005

Current release

3.6, May 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (q)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

R packages

Triggers

yes

with views

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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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