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DBMS > DolphinDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SQL.JS vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SQL.JS vs. TerminusDB

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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 CouchDBPort of SQLite to JavaScriptScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantsql.js.orgterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2018201020122018
Current releasev2.00.4, January 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availablecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++ErlangJavaScriptProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJavaScript APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptJavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoRole-based access control

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