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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. InfinityDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	DolphinDB  Xexclude from comparison	Faircom EDGE formerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparison	InfinityDB  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.	FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments	A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Key-value store Relational DBMS	Key-value store	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 0.09 Rank #362   Overall #53   Key-value stores #155   Relational DBMS	Score 0.08 Rank #365   Overall #55   Key-value stores
Website	www.dolphindb.com	www.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edge	boilerbay.com	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	docs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.html	docs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html	boilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual
Developer	DolphinDB, Inc	FairCom Corporation	Boiler Bay Inc.	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2018	1979	2002	1993
Current release	v2.00.4, January 2022	V3, October 2020	4.0
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial free community version available	commercial Restricted, free version available	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	C++	ANSI C, C++	Java
Server operating systems	Linux Windows	Android Linux ARM, x86 Raspbian Windows	All OS with a Java VM	Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)	yes nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgrade	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types	yes all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays	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	yes	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	no manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability	yes
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like query language	yes ANSI SQL queries	no	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 Direct SQL IoT Microservice layer JDBC MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) ODBC RESTful HTTP API	Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	C# C++ Go Java JavaScript MatLab Python R Rust	C C# C++ Java JavaScript PHP Python VB.Net	Java	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	yes .Net, JavaScript, C/C++	no	yes
Triggers	no	yes	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	horizontal partitioning	File partitioning Customizable business rules for partitioning	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes	yes Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs	none	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	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency Tunable Consistency	Immediate Consistency READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes when using SQL	no manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	yes	ACID	ACID Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes across SQL and NoSQL	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	yes	no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	Administrators, Users, Groups	Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	DolphinDB	Faircom EDGE formerly c-treeEDGE	InfinityDB	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
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