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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GBase vs. KairosDB vs. PouchDB

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  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.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.dolphindb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.gbase.cngithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbpouchdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasekairosdb.github.iopouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014General Data Technology Co., Ltd.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20182012200420132012
Current releasev2.00.4, January 2022GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c1.2.2, November 20187.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C, Java, PythonJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoStandard with numerous extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined functionsnoView functions in JavaScript
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, Groupsyes, based on authentication and database rulesyessimple password-based access controlno

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