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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. DuckDB vs. InfluxDB vs. OpenSearch vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

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.

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Vector DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.63
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dolphindb.com

duckdb.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

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

duckdb.org/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Amazon Web Services

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2018

2013

2021

2017

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

1.0.0, June 2024

2.7.6, April 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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 search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

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

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

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

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

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