DBMS > DolphinDB vs. H2 vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Interbase vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. H2 vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Interbase vs. LokiJS

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

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.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	2.72
Rank	#100	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#377	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.78
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Website

www.dolphindb.com

www.h2database.com

www.hawkular.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

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

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

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

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Thomas Mueller

Community supported by Red Hat

Embarcadero

Initial release

2018

2005

2014

1984

2014

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

2.2.220, July 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

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

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

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

Java

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Interbase Change Views

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

New kids on the block: database management systems implemented in JavaScript
1 December 2014, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Recent citations in the news

Waiting for Red Hat OpenShift 4.0? Too late, 4.1 has already arrived…
5 June 2019, DevClass

provided by Google News

An independent soccer league transforming lives in a slum in Kenya
15 November 2022, FanSided

The advance of Air Force Esports
25 June 2023, New Zealand Defence Force

Malaysian e-commerce firm Lelong.my acquires local digital marketing agency Mataris Agency
29 January 2018, Yahoo Singapore News

iResidenz cracks an elusive market
6 September 2017, Digital News Asia

Sakaja’s vow to nurture sports talents in Nairobi
23 February 2024, Nairobi News

provided by Google News

LokiJS - A JavaScript Database
18 November 2014, iProgrammer

provided by Google News

Share this page