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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. DolphinDB vs. Firebolt vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	Cachelot.io  Xexclude from comparison	DolphinDB  Xexclude from comparison	Firebolt  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
				SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	In-memory caching system	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.	Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product Forked from Clickhouse	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Key-value store	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models		Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.04 Rank #388   Overall #62   Key-value stores	Score 4.03 Rank #78   Overall #6   Time Series DBMS	Score 1.73 Rank #140   Overall #63   Relational DBMS
Website	cachelot.io	www.dolphindb.com	www.firebolt.io	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation		docs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.html	docs.firebolt.io
Developer		DolphinDB, Inc	Firebolt Analytics Inc.	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2015	2018	2020	1993
Current release		v2.00.4, January 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Simplified BSD License	commercial free community version available	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	yes	no
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Implementation language	C++	C++
Server operating systems	FreeBSD Linux OS X	Linux Windows	hosted	Linux Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	no	yes	yes	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.	no	no		no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	SQL-like query language	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods	Memcached protocol	JDBC JSON over HTTP Kafka MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) ODBC OPC DA OPC UA RabbitMQ WebSocket	.Net ODBC RESTful HTTP API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC 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	Go JavaScript (Node.js) Python	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	yes	no	yes
Triggers	no	no	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	horizontal partitioning		none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none	yes	depending on storage layer	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	yes		no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	none	Immediate Consistency		Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no		yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	yes		ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes		yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	no	yes		yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes		no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	no	Administrators, Users, Groups		fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Cachelot.io	DolphinDB	Firebolt	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
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