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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.

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dolphindb.com

geode.apache.org

hive.apache.org

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

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

geode.apache.org/docs

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Oracle

Initial release

2018

2002

2012

1980

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

1.1, February 2017

3.1.3, April 2022

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

yes, on a single node

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

Access rights per client and object definable

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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