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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Immudb vs. Kdb

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonImmudb  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  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.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBAn open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.High performance Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.24
Rank#305  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.comhive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
kx.com
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.immudb.iocode.kx.com
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014CodenotaryKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc
Initial release20182012201020202000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20223.1.3, April 20221.2.3, April 20223.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree 32-bit version
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++JavaErlangGoq
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like syntaxSQL-like query language (q)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIgRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnouser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesnoyes infowith views
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processing
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accounts
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Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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