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DBMS > DolphinDB vs. GeoMesa vs. GridGain vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. GeoMesa vs. GridGain vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparison
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.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgnitePerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.gridgain.comwww.jaguardb.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­database
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncCCRi and othersGridGain Systems, Inc.DataJaguar, Inc.Microsoft
Initial release20182014200720152010
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20225.0.0, May 2024GridGain 8.5.13.3 July 2023V12
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC++ScalaJava, C++, .NetC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noTransact SQL
Triggersnonoyes (cache interceptors and events)noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningdepending on storage layerShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesdepending on storage layeryes (replicated cache)Multi-source replicationyes, with always 3 replicas available
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layeryesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, Groupsyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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