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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Graphite vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SAP IQ

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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.

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	4.23
Rank	#82	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#75	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#374	Overall
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.27
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dolphindb.com

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.hawkular.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

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

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Chris Davis

Community supported by Red Hat

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2018

2006

2014

1994

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
Sockets

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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