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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SAP HANA vs. VelocityDB

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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.

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

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

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.dolphindb.com

hive.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

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

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

help.sap.com/hana

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

SAP

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2018

2012

2010

2011

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

3.1.3, April 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

Based on Windows Authentication

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