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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Spark SQL

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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.

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

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

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2018

2017

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2014

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

Nov 20, November 2021

10 R1, October 2018

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

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

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined procedures and functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

MVCC

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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