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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Heroic vs. Ingres vs. SAP HANA vs. SWC-DB

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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.

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

Well established RDBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.dolphindb.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

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

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.actian.com/ingres

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Spotify

Actian Corporation

SAP

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2018

2014

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2010

2020

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

11.2, May 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

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

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Ingres Replicator

yes

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

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

MVCC

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

yes

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