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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. FileMaker vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. SurrealDB

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storesurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storesurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleIBMSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2018198320172022
Current releasev2.00.4, January 202219.4.1, November 20212.0v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availablecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 formatno
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infovia pluginsyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query language
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
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
PHPC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Active-active shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, Groupssimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rules

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