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DBMS > DolphinDB vs. Drizzle vs. Ingres vs. Quasardb vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Drizzle vs. Ingres vs. Quasardb vs. Splunk

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  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.
DescriptionDolphinDB 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.Well established RDBMSDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.dolphindb.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresquasar.aiwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmldocs.actian.com/­ingresdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerActian CorporationquasardbSplunk Inc.
Initial release201820081974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20092003
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20227.2.4, September 201211.2, May 20223.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++CC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesSQL-like query languageno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
JDBC.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesnoyes
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Ingres ReplicatorSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonowith Hadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, GroupsPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailAccess rights for users and roles

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