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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenEdge vs. TimescaleDB

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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.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.72
Rank	#100	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#377	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	4.06
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.dolphindb.com

www.hawkular.org

www.progress.com/openedge

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

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

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.timescale.com

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Community supported by Red Hat

Progress Software Corporation

Timescale

Initial release

2018

2014

1984

2017

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

close to SQL 92

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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