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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Fauna vs. Graph Engine vs. KairosDB

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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.

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.

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.dolphindb.com

fauna.com

www.graphengine.io

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

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

docs.fauna.com

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Fauna, Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2018

2014

2010

2013

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

.NET and C

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

.NET

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

simple password-based access control

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