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DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. DolphinDB vs. Firebird vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. DolphinDB vs. Firebird vs. PostGIS

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NameCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory caching systemDolphinDB 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.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitecachelot.iowww.dolphindb.comwww.firebirdsql.orgpostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualspostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncFirebird Foundation
Initial release201520182000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2005
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20225.0.0, January 20243.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoSimplified BSD Licensecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C and C++C
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsMemcached protocolJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesPSQLuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAdministrators, Users, GroupsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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