DBMS > DolphinDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Ingres vs. TigerGraph vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Ingres vs. TigerGraph vs. TimesTen

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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.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Well established RDBMS

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dolphindb.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.tigergraph.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.tigergraph.com

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Google

Actian Corporation

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2018

2010

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2017

1998

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

11.2, May 2022

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Ingres Replicator

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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