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DBMS > DolphinDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  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.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.23
Rank#82  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score15.00
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score3.58
Rank#92  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.04
Rank#374  Overall
#38  Time Series DBMS
Score78.40
Rank#15  Overall
#10  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasecloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.hawkular.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­database
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GoogleCommunity supported by Red HatMicrosoft
Initial release20182012201520142010
Current releasev2.00.4, January 2022V12
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
hostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenononoyes
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
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'nonoTransact SQL
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes, with always 3 replicas available
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
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 consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesAtomic single-row operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, Groupsyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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