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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Graph Engine vs. GridGain vs. Ingres vs. IRONdb

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteWell established RDBMSA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.comwww.graphengine.iowww.gridgain.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncMicrosoftGridGain Systems, Inc.Actian CorporationCirconus LLC.
Initial release2018201020071974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2017
Current releasev2.00.4, January 2022GridGain 8.5.111.2, May 2022V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++.NET and CJava, C++, .NetCC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
.NETLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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.nonoyesno infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesyes, in Lua
Triggersnonoyes (cache interceptors and events)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes (replicated cache)Ingres Replicatorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, GroupsSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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