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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2 vs. TerminusDB

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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.

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

www.dolphindb.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.h2database.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Thomas Mueller

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2018

2012

2005

2018

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

2.2.220, July 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

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

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Java

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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