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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SQL.JS

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbhive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantsql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlapple.github.io/­foundationdbcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncFoundationDBApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20182013201220102012
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20226.2.28, November 20203.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaErlangJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagesupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesin SQL-layer onlyyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, GroupsnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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