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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Hypertable vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SQL.JS vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed 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.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

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

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Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

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

Website

www.dolphindb.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

sql.js.org

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

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

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Hypertable Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2018

2009

2010

2012

2011

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

0.9.8.11, March 2016

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

C++ API
Thrift

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JavaScript API

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

none

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

except by serializing a db to a file

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 can be defined per database

Based on Windows Authentication

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