DBMS > ArcadeDB vs. BigObject vs. DolphinDB vs. Linter vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. BigObject vs. DolphinDB vs. Linter vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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.

RDBMS for high security requirements

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

in next version

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.10
Rank	#358	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#52	Key-value stores
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.arcadedb.com

docs.bigobject.io

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

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Arcade Data

BigObject, Inc.

DolphinDB, Inc

relex.ru

Initial release

2021

2015

2018

1990

2005

Current release

September 2021

v2.00.4, January 2022

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
Windows

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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-like query language, no joins

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Java

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

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

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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