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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. DolphinDB vs. Heroic vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphDolphinDB 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.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitebangdb.comwww.dolphindb.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicsphinxsearch.comsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicsphinxsearch.com/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBDolphinDB, IncSpotifySphinx Technologies Inc.Splice Machine
Initial release20122018201420012014
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 2021v2.00.4, January 20223.5.1, February 20233.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C++JavaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Proprietary protocolJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonoyes infoJava
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmhorizontal partitioningShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yesyesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modeyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Administrators, Users, GroupsnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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