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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. FileMaker vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. Valentina Server

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
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.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Object-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.geomesa.orgwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014CCRi and othersParadigma Software
Initial release20181983201220141999
Current releasev2.00.4, January 202219.4.1, November 20214.0.5, February 20245.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infovia pluginsnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
PHPJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes
TriggersnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnonedepending on storage layer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14depending on storage layer
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
depending on storage layer
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, Groupssimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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