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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TerarkDB

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Name	DolphinDB  Xexclude from comparison	IBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	TerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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.	Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Document store	Relational DBMS	Key-value store
Secondary database models	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 4.03 Rank #78   Overall #6   Time Series DBMS	Score 2.75 Rank #104   Overall #19   Document stores		Score 0.08 Rank #367   Overall #56   Key-value stores
Website	www.dolphindb.com	www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	github.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentation	docs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.html	cloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant		bytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
Developer	DolphinDB, Inc	IBM, Apache Software Foundation IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014	Sybase, SAP	ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release	2018	2010	1993	2016
Current release	v2.00.4, January 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial free community version available	commercial	commercial	commercial restricted open source version available
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no
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Implementation language	C++	Erlang		C++
Server operating systems	Linux Windows	hosted	Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	schema-free	yes	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	no	yes	no
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.	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	no
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like query language	no	yes	no
APIs and other access methods	JDBC JSON over HTTP Kafka MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) ODBC OPC DA OPC UA RabbitMQ WebSocket	RESTful HTTP/JSON API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	C++ API Java API
Supported programming languages	C# C++ Go Java JavaScript MatLab Python R Rust	C# Java JavaScript Objective-C PHP Ruby	Delphi Perl PHP	C++ Java
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript	yes	no
Triggers	no	yes	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	horizontal partitioning	Sharding	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes	Multi-source replication Source-replica replication	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	yes	yes	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	yes	no atomic operations within a document possible	ACID	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes Optimistic locking	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	yes
User concepts Access control	Administrators, Users, Groups	Access rights for users can be defined per database	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no
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