DBMS > DolphinDB vs. etcd vs. Fauna vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. etcd vs. Fauna vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. MySQL

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Name

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 distributed reliable key-value store

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	1.55
Rank	#151	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dolphindb.com

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

fauna.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

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

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

docs.fauna.com

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Fauna, Inc.

Google

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2018

2014

2017

1995

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

3.4, August 2019

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

RESTful HTTP API

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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