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System Properties Comparison Kdb vs. TDengine vs. TimescaleDB

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NameKdb  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS and big data platformA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score7.72
Rank#45  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#2  Vector DBMS
Score2.47
Rank#107  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score3.79
Rank#74  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitekx.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
www.timescale.com
Technical documentationcode.kx.comdocs.tdengine.comdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcTDEngine, previously Taos DataTimescale
Initial release2000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320192017
Current release3.6, May 20183.0, August 20222.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageqCC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnoyes
Secondary indexesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'noyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (q)Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyes infowith viewsyes, via alarm monitoringyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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KdbTDengineTimescaleDB
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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TDengine™ is a time-series database designed to help traditional industries overcome...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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High Performance at Any Scale: With its distributed scalable architecture that grows...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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TDengine is purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and the Industrial IoT (IIoT) and particularly...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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TDengine has garnered over 23,000 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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TDengine OSS is free, open-source software released under the AGPLv3. TDengine Enterprise...
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