DBMS > DolphinDB vs. Drizzle vs. FatDB vs. Infobright vs. PieCloudDB

System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Drizzle vs. FatDB vs. Infobright vs. PieCloudDB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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.

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dolphindb.com

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.openpie.com

Technical documentation

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

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

FatCloud

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

OpenPie

Initial release

2018

2008

2012

2005

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

7.2.4, September 2012

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

user defined functions

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

via applications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Can implement custom security layer via applications

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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