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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 vs. Snowflake

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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.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dolphindb.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.heavy.ai

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

IBM

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2018

2016

1983

host version

2014

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

5.10, January 2022

12.1, October 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++ and CUDA

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

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
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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