DBMS > Blueflood vs. DolphinDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. RisingWave

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. DolphinDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. RisingWave

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.64
Rank	#238	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.dolphindb.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.risingwave.com/database

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

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

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

Developer

Rackspace

DolphinDB, Inc

Microsoft

RisingWave Labs

Initial release

2013

2018

2014

2022

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

hosted

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

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

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users and Roles

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