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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Geode vs. HEAVY.AI

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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.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dolphindb.com

www.esgyn.cn

geode.apache.org

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

Technical documentation

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

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.heavy.ai

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Esgyn

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Initial release

2018

2015

2002

2016

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

1.1, February 2017

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Java

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux

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

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Round robin

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes, on a single node

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

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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