DBMS > DataFS vs. DolphinDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. DolphinDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. MonetDB

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Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

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.

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

www.dolphindb.com

machbase.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

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

machbase.com/dbms

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Mobiland AG

DolphinDB, Inc

Machbase

Microsoft

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2018

2013

2014

2004

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

v2.00.4, January 2022

V8.0, August 2023

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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 properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

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

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

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

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

Administrators, Users, Groups

simple password-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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