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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.

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 distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.dolphindb.com

www.graphengine.io

postgis.net

Technical documentation

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

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Microsoft

Initial release

2018

2008

2010

2005

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

7.2.4, September 2012

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

.NET and C

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

.NET

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Java
PHP

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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