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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.

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.

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.72
Rank	#100	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#191	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	5.75
Rank	#58	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.15
Rank	#323	Overall
	#44	Document stores
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

www.dolphindb.com

github.com/apple/foundationdb

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

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

apple.github.io/foundationdb

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

FoundationDB

Microsoft

Yandex

Initial release

2018

2013

2015

2023

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

6.2.28, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

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

supported in specific SQL layer only

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

in SQL-layer only

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

using Azure authentication

Access Control Lists

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