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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Ehcache vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Titan vs. VoltDB

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

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.

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dolphindb.com

www.ehcache.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.ehcache.org/documentation

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Sybase, SAP

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2018

2009

1993

2012

2010

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

3.10.0, March 2022

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

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

JCache

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

Java

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Clojure
Java
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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