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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. DolphinDB vs. Hive vs. Ingres vs. TimescaleDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.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.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopWell established RDBMSA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.dolphindb.comhive.apache.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperBaseX GmbHDolphinDB, IncApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookActian CorporationTimescale
Initial release2007201820121974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2017
Current release10.7, August 2023v2.00.4, January 20223.1.3, April 202211.2, May 20222.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaCC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyes infovia eventsnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesselectable replication factorIngres ReplicatorSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writeryesnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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