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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. DolphinDB vs. Hive vs. RRDtool vs. TimescaleDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSDolphinDB 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.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.dolphindb.comhive.apache.orgoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homeoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperAltibaseDolphinDB, IncApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookTobias OetikerTimescale
Initial release19992018201219992017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023v2.00.4, January 20223.1.3, April 20221.8.0, 20222.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMHP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlynumerics, 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.nonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
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
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
in-process shared library
Pipes
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingnoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
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.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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