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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. EsgynDB vs. PouchDB vs. TerminusDB

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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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	2.72
Rank	#100	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

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

pouchdb.com/guides

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Esgyn

Apache Software Foundation

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2018

2015

2012

2018

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

7.1.1, June 2019

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

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

JavaScript

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

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

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

JavaScript

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Journaling Streams

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

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