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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Heroic vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	DolphinDB  Xexclude from comparison	Heroic  Xexclude from comparison	JaguarDB  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
					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	Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications	A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Key-value store Vector DBMS	Wide column store	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 4.03 Rank #78   Overall #6   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.46 Rank #265   Overall #22   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.06 Rank #381   Overall #59   Key-value stores #13   Vector DBMS	Score 4.04 Rank #77   Overall #6   Wide column stores
Website	www.dolphindb.com	github.com/­spotify/­heroic	www.jaguardb.com	azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tables	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	docs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.html	spotify.github.io/­heroic	www.jaguardb.com/­support.html
Developer	DolphinDB, Inc	Spotify	DataJaguar, Inc.	Microsoft	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2018	2014	2015	2012	1993
Current release	v2.00.4, January 2022		3.3 July 2023
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial free community version available	Open Source Apache 2.0	Open Source GPL V3.0	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	yes	no
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Implementation language	C++	Java	C++ the server part. Clients available in other languages
Server operating systems	Linux Windows		Linux	hosted	Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	schema-free	yes	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	yes	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.	no	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes via Elasticsearch	yes	no	yes
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like query language	no	A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented but no views, foreign keys, triggers	no	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	JDBC ODBC	RESTful HTTP API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	C# C++ Go Java JavaScript MatLab Python R Rust		C C++ Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python Ruby Scala	.Net C# C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python Ruby	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	no	no	no	yes
Triggers	no	no	no	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	horizontal partitioning	Sharding	Sharding	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes	yes	Multi-source replication	yes implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	yes	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	no	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	yes	no	no	optimistic locking	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	no	no	no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	Administrators, Users, Groups		rights management via user accounts	Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	DolphinDB	Heroic	JaguarDB	Microsoft Azure Table Storage	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
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