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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. HBase vs. InfinityDB vs. LevelDB vs. Memcached

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  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.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeKey-value storeKey-value storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitewww.dolphindb.comhbase.apache.orgboilerbay.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetBoiler Bay Inc.GoogleDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release20182008200220112003
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20222.3.4, January 20214.01.23, February 20211.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
All OS with a Java VMIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysnono
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaC++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoCoprocessors in Javanonono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnonoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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