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DBMS > DolphinDB vs. GridGain vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. GridGain vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  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.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.72
Rank#100  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
#5  Vector DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#150  Overall
#1  Columnar
#26  Key-value stores
#2  Object oriented DBMS
#69  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Websitewww.dolphindb.comwww.gridgain.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanttechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncGridGain Systems, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2018200720102014
Current releasev2.00.4, January 2022GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availablecommercial, open sourcecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQLErlangJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnono
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
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
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, GroupsRole-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations
Access rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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