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DBMS > DolphinDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. MarkLogic vs. Valentina Server

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

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  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.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.Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.14
Rank#85  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score15.07
Rank#38  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.82
Rank#218  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score7.08
Rank#56  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#5  Search engines
Score0.18
Rank#331  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.geomesa.orgwww.marklogic.comwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.marklogic.comvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014CCRi and othersMarkLogic Corp.Paradigma Software
Initial release20182012201420011999
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20224.0.5, February 202411.0, December 20225.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++ScalaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoyes infoSQL92yes
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
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptyes
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningdepending on storage layerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesdepending on storage layeryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsno
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 layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesnoACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction
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, with Range Indexesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, Groupsyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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