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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.

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

Well established RDBMS

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.dolphindb.com

www.h2database.com

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.actian.com/ingres

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Thomas Mueller

Actian Corporation

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2018

2005

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2019

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

2.2.220, July 2023

11.2, May 2022

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

Java

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

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

Ingres Replicator

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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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