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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. FatDB vs. Firebird vs. SWC-DB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed 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.

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.23
Rank	#82	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	21.06
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#387	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.dolphindb.com

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

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

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

FatCloud

Firebird Foundation

Alex Kashirin

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2018

2012

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2020

2009

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

5.0.0, January 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

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 and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

PSQL

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica 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

Immediate 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

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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