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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. GridGain vs. HBase vs. LeanXcale

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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.

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

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

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

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

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

hbase.apache.org/book.html

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

LeanXcale

Initial release

2018

2007

2008

2015

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

GridGain 8.5.1

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

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++

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

yes

through Apache Derby

APIs and other access methods

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

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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

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