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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. DolphinDB vs. gStore vs. H2 vs. OpenEdge

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

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 native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

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

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

DolphinDB, Inc

Thomas Mueller

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2012

2018

2016

2005

1984

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

v2.00.4, January 2022

1.2, November 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Java

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Administrators, Users, Groups

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups

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