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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Hazelcast vs. HBase vs. QuestDB

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 engineA widely adopted in-memory data gridWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value storeWide column storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.comwww.graphengine.iohazelcast.comhbase.apache.orgquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.htmlquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncMicrosoftHazelcastApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20182010200820082014
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20225.3.6, November 20232.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++.NET and CJavaJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
.NETAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes
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.nonoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query languagenoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyes infoCoprocessors in Javano
Triggersnonoyes infoEventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoReplicated MapMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyesyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, GroupsRole-based access controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC
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DolphinDBGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityHazelcastHBaseQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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