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DBMS > DolphinDB vs. FatDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Infobright vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. FatDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Infobright vs. Sphinx

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionDolphinDB 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.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.dolphindb.comwww.hawkular.orgignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidesphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncFatCloudCommunity supported by Red HatIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20182012201420052001
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C#JavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
WindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServernoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
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
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C#Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infovia applicationsnonono
Triggersnoyes infovia applicationsyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, Groupsno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesno

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