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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. DolphinDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. Riak TS vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.dolphindb.com

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

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

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

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

DolphinDB, Inc

Elastic

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2008

2018

2010

2015

2011

Current release

11.0, January 2021

v2.00.4, January 2022

8.6, January 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

schema-free

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.Net

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Administrators, Users, Groups

Based on Windows Authentication

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