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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. BoltDB vs. DolphinDB vs. EXASOL vs. IRONdb

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSAn embedded key-value store for Go.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.High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.dolphindb.comwww.exasol.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperAltibaseDolphinDB, IncExasolCirconus LLC.
Initial release19992013201820002017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023v2.00.4, January 2022V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree community version availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++GoC++C and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
GoC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
Java
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoyesuser defined functionsyes, in Lua
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioningShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes infoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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