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DBMS > DolphinDB vs. FoundationDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. jBASE vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. FoundationDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. jBASE vs. Kinetica

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
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.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.60
Rank#102  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#29  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score1.34
Rank#156  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score1.39
Rank#154  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#257  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.kinetica.com
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.heavy.aidocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.kinetica.com
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncFoundationDBHEAVY.AI, Inc.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Kinetica
Initial release20182013201619912012
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20226.2.28, November 20205.10, January 20225.77.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++ and CUDAC, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesoptionalyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagesupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesin SQL-layer onlynoyesuser defined functions
Triggersnononoyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingSharding infoRound robinShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesMulti-source replicationyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACIDno
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.yesyesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, Groupsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights for users and roles on table level

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