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DBMS > Dgraph vs. DolphinDB vs. Drizzle vs. GeoSpock vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. DolphinDB vs. Drizzle vs. GeoSpock vs. Kinetica

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSDolphinDB 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.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.39
Rank#155  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score2.72
Rank#100  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
#5  Vector DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Websitedgraph.iowww.dolphindb.comgeospock.comwww.kinetica.com
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmldocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.DolphinDB, IncDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGeoSpockKinetica
Initial release2016201820082012
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20227.2.4, September 20122.0, September 20197.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageGoC++C++Java, JavascriptC, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyestemporal, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes infowith proprietary extensionsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
JDBCJDBCJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C
C++
Java
PHP
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonouser defined functions
Triggersnonono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyeshorizontal partitioningShardingAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesAdministrators, Users, GroupsPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users and roles on table level

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