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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. TerarkDB vs. YottaDB

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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.

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

www.dolphindb.com

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Elastic

ByteDance, originally Terark

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2018

2010

2016

2001

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

8.6, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

restricted open source version available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

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

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

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

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

ES-Hadoop Connector

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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