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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. FileMaker vs. MariaDB vs. mSQL vs. PostGIS

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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.

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.dolphindb.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

postgis.net

Technical documentation

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

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2018

1983

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

1994

2005

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

19.4.1, November 2021

11.3.2, February 2024

4.4, October 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

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.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

via plugins

yes

with proprietary extensions

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

PHP

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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