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DBMS > DolphinDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Interbase vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Interbase vs. Kinetica

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  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.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.72
Rank#100  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
#5  Vector DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score3.78
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.kinetica.com
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014EmbarcaderoKinetica
Initial release2018201019842012
Current releasev2.00.4, January 2022InterBase 2020, December 20197.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangCC, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
hostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nonono infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Interbase Change ViewsSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table level

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