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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. FatDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Infobright vs. SiteWhere

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Name

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

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.36
Rank	#72	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.dolphindb.com

cloud.google.com/datastore

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

FatCloud

Google

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

SiteWhere

Initial release

2018

2012

2008

2005

2010

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, details here

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like query language (GQL)

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

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

using Google App Engine

Triggers

yes

via applications

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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