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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. mSQL

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Name

Description

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.

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.dolphindb.com

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

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

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Elastic

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2013

2018

2010

1994

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

8.6, January 2023

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

Memcached and Redis integration

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

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