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DBMS > DolphinDB vs. Firebird vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Manticore Search vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Firebird vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Manticore Search vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  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.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseCloud-based data warehousing serviceMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score2.72
Rank#100  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
#5  Vector DBMS
Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#162  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#301  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score3.50
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.comwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousemanticoresearch.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsmanual.manticoresearch.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncFirebird FoundationIBMManticore SoftwareSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20182000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201420171992
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20225.0.1, August 20246.0, February 202317, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possibleCan index from XMLyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPSQLPL/SQL, SQL PLuser defined functionsyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyesSynchronous replication based on Galera librarySource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, GroupsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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