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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Graph Engine vs. HBase vs. SQLite vs. Sqrrl

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been 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 distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.23
Rank	#82	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	31.25
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

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

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

2018

2010

2008

2000

2012

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

2.3.4, January 2021

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

.NET and C

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

.NET

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

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

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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