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DBMS > DolphinDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. KeyDB vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. KeyDB vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  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.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#226  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitewww.dolphindb.comwww.hawkular.orggithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
www.kinetica.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.keydb.devdocs.kinetica.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncCommunity supported by Red HatEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.Kinetica
Initial release20182014201920122014
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20227.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD-3commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++C, C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
HTTP RESTProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoLuauser defined functionsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infobased on CassandraShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, Groupsnosimple password-based access control and ACLAccess rights for users and roles on table levelno

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