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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. DolphinDB vs. FileMaker vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	DolphinDB  Xexclude from comparison	FileMaker  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
				SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service	DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.	FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models		Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.29 Rank #301   Overall #26   Time Series DBMS	Score 4.03 Rank #78   Overall #6   Time Series DBMS	Score 47.91 Rank #20   Overall #14   Relational DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	www.dolphindb.com	www.claris.com/­filemaker	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb	docs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.html	www.claris.com/­resources/­documentation
Developer	Alibaba	DolphinDB, Inc	Claris a subsidiary of Apple	Sybase, SAP
Initial release		2018	1983	1993
Current release		v2.00.4, January 2022	19.4.1, November 2021
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial free community version available	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		C++
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux Windows	iOS client part only Linux OS X Windows	Linux Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	Numeric data and Strings	yes	yes	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.	no	no	yes A http query request can return the data in XML format	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	SQL-like query language	yes via plugins	yes
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST	JDBC JSON over HTTP Kafka MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) ODBC OPC DA OPC UA RabbitMQ WebSocket	Filemaker WebDirect JDBC ODBC	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	Java	C# C++ Go Java JavaScript MatLab Python R Rust	PHP	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	yes	yes	yes
Triggers	no	no	yes	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		horizontal partitioning	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		yes	Source-replica replication, warm standby since Version 14	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	yes	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency		Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	yes	no	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes		no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	Access managed on TSDB instance level	Administrators, Users, Groups	simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Alibaba Cloud TSDB	DolphinDB	FileMaker	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
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