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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Prometheus vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	DolphinDB  Xexclude from comparison	EventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparison	Prometheus  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
				SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.	Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.	Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Event Store	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS
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 1.19 Rank #173   Overall #1   Event Stores	Score 7.69 Rank #50   Overall #3   Time Series DBMS
Website	www.dolphindb.com	www.eventstore.com	prometheus.io	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	docs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.html	developers.eventstore.com	prometheus.io/­docs
Developer	DolphinDB, Inc	Event Store Limited		Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2018	2012	2015	1993
Current release	v2.00.4, January 2022	21.2, February 2021
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial free community version available	Open Source	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	C++		Go
Server operating systems	Linux Windows	Linux Windows	Linux Windows	Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes		yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes		Numeric data only	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.	no		no Import of XML data possible	no
Secondary indexes	yes		no	yes
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like query language		no	yes
APIs and other access methods	JDBC JSON over HTTP Kafka MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) ODBC OPC DA OPC UA RabbitMQ WebSocket		RESTful HTTP/JSON API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	C# C++ Go Java JavaScript MatLab Python R Rust		.Net C++ Go Haskell Java JavaScript (Node.js) Python Ruby	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes		no	yes
Triggers	no		no	yes
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		yes by Federation	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	yes		no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency		none	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no		no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	yes		no	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes		yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes		yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes		no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	Administrators, Users, Groups		no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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