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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. DolphinDB vs. SpaceTime vs. TDengine

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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.

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.dolphindb.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

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

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

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Altibase

DolphinDB, Inc

Mireo

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

1999

2018

2020

2019

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

v2.00.4, January 2022

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

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

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

C#
C++
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

yes

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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