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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Graph Engine vs. GridGain vs. Realm

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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.

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.23
Rank	#82	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	1.53
Rank	#155	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Website

Technical documentation

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

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

realm.io/docs

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Microsoft

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2018

2010

2007

2014

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

GridGain 8.5.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

.NET and C

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

.NET

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes (replicated cache)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

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