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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Heroic vs. InfinityDB vs. JaguarDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

www.dolphindb.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

boilerbay.com

www.jaguardb.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

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

spotify.github.io/heroic

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Spotify

Boiler Bay Inc.

DataJaguar, Inc.

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2018

2014

2002

2015

1993

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

4.0

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

via Elasticsearch

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

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

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

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
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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