DBMS > Badger vs. DolphinDB vs. MySQL vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. DolphinDB vs. MySQL vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. VelocityDB

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

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.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.dolphindb.com

www.mysql.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

DGraph Labs

DolphinDB, Inc

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Sybase, SAP

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2017

2018

1995

1993

2011

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

8.4.0, April 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Any that supports .NET

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Delphi
Perl
PHP

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
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

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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