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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. GBase vs. Kuzu vs. SAP IQ

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Name

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.

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

An embeddable property Graph DBMS built for query speed and scalability

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#214	Overall
	#99	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#402	Overall
	#41	Graph DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

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

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

docs.kuzudb.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

McObject

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2018

2001

2004

2022

1994

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

8.2, 2021

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

0.4.2, May 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

MIT license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
Cypher Query Language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Rust

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning / sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

yes

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Key customers

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