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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PostGIS vs. TerarkDB

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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.Microsofts flagship relational DBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score4.23
Rank#82  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score829.80
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score23.90
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#377  Overall
#58  Key-value stores
Websitewww.dolphindb.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverpostgis.netgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverpostgis.net/­documentationbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncCCRi and othersMicrosoftByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20182014198920052016
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20224.0.5, February 2024SQL Server 2022, November 20223.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ScalaC++CC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonoyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
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)
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javauser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningdepending on storage layertables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesdepending on storage layeryes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACIDno
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 layeryesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, Groupsyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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