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DBMS > DolphinDB vs. FileMaker vs. mSQL vs. PostGIS vs. Titan

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

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
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.mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlpostgis.netgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationpostgis.net/­documentationgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleHughes TechnologiesAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20181983199420052012
Current releasev2.00.4, January 202219.4.1, November 20214.4, October 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availablecommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
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 formatnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infovia pluginsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyesno
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
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
PHPC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnouser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnonenoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14noneyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, Groupssimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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