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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. GeoMesa vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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.

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dolphindb.com

www.geomesa.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

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

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

CCRi and others

SAP

formerly Sybase

Teradata

Initial release

2018

2014

1992

2005

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

4.0.5, February 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

in Aster File Store

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
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

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