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DBMS > DolphinDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. FatDB vs. FileMaker

System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. FatDB vs. FileMaker

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the 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.The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.comwww.enterprisedb.comwww.claris.com/­filemaker
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.enterprisedb.com/­docswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncEnterpriseDBFatCloudClaris infoa subsidiary of Apple
Initial release2018200520121983
Current releasev2.00.4, January 202214, December 202119.4.1, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availablecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++CC#
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
WindowsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML format
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infostandard with numerous extensionsno infoVia inetgration in SQL Serveryes infovia plugins
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes infovia applicationsyes
Triggersnoyesyes infovia applicationsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factorSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, Groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationssimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

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