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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Hive vs. Linter vs. NebulaGraph vs. PostGIS

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  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 HadoopRDBMS for high security requirementsA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#350  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score2.23
Rank#116  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.comhive.apache.orglinter.rugithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
postgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.nebula-graph.iopostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by Facebookrelex.ruVesoft Inc.
Initial release20182012199020192005
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20223.1.3, April 20223.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC and C++C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesStrong typed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes infoNebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis infoORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLuser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingnoneShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationCausal Clustering using Raft protocolyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlyes infobased on PostgreSQL
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DolphinDBHiveLinterNebulaGraphPostGIS
Specific characteristicsNebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantagesNebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenariosSocial networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Key customersCompanies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metricsAt our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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Licensing and pricing modelsNebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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