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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. DolphinDB vs. HarperDB vs. Interbase vs. Vertica

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.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.HarperDB takes the "stack" out of "tech stack" by combining an ultra-fast document-style data store, in-memory cache, real-time message broker, and your application components into a single distributed technology.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score2.72
Rank#100  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
#5  Vector DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#243  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score3.78
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score9.62
Rank#42  Overall
#26  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.dolphindb.comwww.harperdb.iowww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.vertica.com
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmldocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasevertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncHarperDBEmbarcaderoOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release20132018201719842005
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20223.1, August 2021InterBase 2020, December 201912.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree community version availablecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languageGoC++Node.jsCC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesdynamic schemayesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoJSON data typesyesyes
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.nononono infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like data manipulation statementsyesFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languagesGoC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesCustom Functions infosince release 3.1yes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersnononoyesyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternonehorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedInterbase Change ViewsMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using LMDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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