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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Fauna vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NCache

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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.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

www.dolphindb.com

fauna.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

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

docs.fauna.com

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Fauna, Inc.

Spotify

Microsoft

Alachisoft

Initial release

2018

2014

2016

2005

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Java

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

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

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C#
Java
PHP

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Transact SQL

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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

Identity management, authentication, and access control

yes

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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