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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. DolphinDB vs. openGauss vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

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.

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

bangdb.com

www.dolphindb.com

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

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

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

DolphinDB, Inc

Huawei and openGauss community

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2012

2018

2019

2001

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

v2.00.4, January 2022

3.0, March 2022

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

C, C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL 2011

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

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

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

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

C
C++
Java

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

yes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Administrators, Users, Groups

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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