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DBMS > DolphinDB vs. H2 vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems Caché vs. JaguarDB

System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. H2 vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems Caché vs. JaguarDB

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA multi-model DBMS and application serverPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
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Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.comwww.h2database.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.jaguardb.com
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.intersystems.comwww.jaguardb.com/­support.html
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncThomas MuellerIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014InterSystemsDataJaguar, Inc.
Initial release20182005201019972015
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20222.2.220, July 20232018.1.4, May 20203.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++JavaErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languages
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freedepending on used data modelyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
JavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesno
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, Groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users, groups and rolesrights management via user accounts

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