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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Hypertable vs. Memcached

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines 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.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Wide column storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.72
Rank#100  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
#5  Vector DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#191  Overall
#32  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#87  Relational DBMS
Score16.84
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitewww.dolphindb.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlapple.github.io/­foundationdbgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncFoundationDBHypertable Inc.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release2018201320092003
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20226.2.28, November 20200.9.8.11, March 20161.6.29, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingnono
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.no
Secondary indexesyesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagesupported in specific SQL layer onlynono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
C++ API
Thrift
Proprietary protocol
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
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesin SQL-layer onlynono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesselectable replication factor on file system levelnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, Groupsnonoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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