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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Yaacomo

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Name	DolphinDB  Xexclude from comparison	Google Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	Yaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.	Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is 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.	A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 4.03 Rank #78   Overall #6   Time Series DBMS	Score 2.84 Rank #100   Overall #51   Relational DBMS
Website	www.dolphindb.com	cloud.google.com/­spanner	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	yaacomo.com
Technical documentation	docs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.html	cloud.google.com/­spanner/­docs
Developer	DolphinDB, Inc	Google	Sybase, SAP	Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release	2018	2017	1993	2009
Current release	v2.00.4, January 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial free community version available	commercial	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no
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Implementation language	C++
Server operating systems	Linux Windows	hosted	Linux Windows	Android Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	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.	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like query language	yes Query statements complying to ANSI 2011	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods	JDBC JSON over HTTP Kafka MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) ODBC OPC DA OPC UA RabbitMQ WebSocket	gRPC (using protocol buffers) API JDBC At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements. RESTful HTTP API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	JDBC ODBC
Supported programming languages	C# C++ Go Java JavaScript MatLab Python R Rust	Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) Python	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	no	yes
Triggers	no	no	yes	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	horizontal partitioning	Sharding	none	horizontal partitioning
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes	Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	yes	yes using Google Cloud Dataflow	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity	yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	yes	ACID Strict serializable isolation	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	yes
User concepts Access control	Administrators, Users, Groups	Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	DolphinDB	Google Cloud Spanner	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	Yaacomo
Recent citations in the news		Google's Cloud Spanner Now Spans Continents … Like It's Supposed to Do 31 May 2024, Data Center Knowledge Google Improves Cloud Spanner: More Compute and Storage without Price Increase 14 October 2023, InfoQ.com Google makes its Cloud Spanner database service faster and more cost-efficient 11 October 2023, SiliconANGLE News Google turns up the heat on AWS, claims Cloud Spanner is half the cost of DynamoDB 11 October 2023, TechCrunch Google Spanner: When Do You Need to Move to It? 11 September 2023, hackernoon.com provided by Google News	SAP Announces Q3 2023 Results: Asia Pacific and Japan View 19 October 2023, SAP News provided by Google News

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