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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenTenBase vs. SAP HANA

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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.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#370	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dolphindb.com

www.geomesa.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

CCRi and others

Microsoft

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

SAP

Initial release

2018

2014

1989

2010

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

5.0.0, May 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.5, January 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

depending on storage layer

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on storage layer

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

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

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

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