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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. GigaSpaces vs. Sphinx vs. VoltDB

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
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.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Search engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.gigaspaces.comsphinxsearch.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncElasticGigaspaces TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.VoltDB Inc.
Initial release20182010200020012010
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20228.6, January 202315.5, September 20203.5.1, February 202311.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava, C++, .NetC++Java, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadata
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageSQL-99 for query and DML statementsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Proprietary protocolJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesnoJava
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes, event driven architecturenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesES-Hadoop Connectoryes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDnoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesMemcached and Redis integrationyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, GroupsRole-based access controlnoUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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