DBMS > DolphinDB vs. EXASOL vs. OpenSearch vs. RDF4J vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. EXASOL vs. OpenSearch vs. RDF4J vs. SwayDB

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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.

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

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

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	4.23
Rank	#82	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#120	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	15.65
Rank	#38	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#373	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

www.dolphindb.com

www.exasol.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

rdf4j.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

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

www.exasol.com/resources

opensearch.org/docs/latest

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Exasol

Amazon Web Services

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2018

2000

2021

2004

2018

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

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

Java
Lua
Python
R

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Java
PHP
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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