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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. H2GIS vs. HyperSQL vs. TerminusDB vs. TinkerGraph

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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.

Spatial extension of H2

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

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

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

CNRS

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2018

2013

2001

2018

2009

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

2.7.2, June 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Prolog, Rust

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

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

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

JavaScript
Python

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Graph Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

none

Journaling Streams

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

optional

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

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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