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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. FoundationDB vs. jBASE

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.65
Rank	#140	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#146	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#27	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	1.80
Rank	#133	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.dolphindb.com

www.foundationdb.org

www.jbase.com

Technical documentation

www.dolphindb.com/help

apple.github.io/foundationdb

docs.zumasys.com/jbase

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

FoundationDB

Zumasys

Initial release

2018

2013

1991

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

6.2.28, November 2020

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

supported in specific SQL layer only

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based 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

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

in SQL-layer only

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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