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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Fauna vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SingleStore vs. STSdb

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines 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.

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.

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.38
Rank	#104	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#142	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#13	Graph DBMS
	#65	Relational DBMS
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.19
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#361	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

www.dolphindb.com

fauna.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.singlestore.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

docs.fauna.com

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Fauna, Inc.

Sybase, SAP

SingleStore Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2018

2014

1993

2013

2011

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

8.5, January 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

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

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Sharding

hash partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

Identity management, authentication, and access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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