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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. DolphinDB vs. MonetDB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.87
Rank	#200	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	2.72
Rank	#100	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Altibase

DolphinDB, Inc

MonetDB BV

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

1999

2018

2004

2018

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

v2.00.4, January 2022

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding via remote tables

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Administrators, Users, Groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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