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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. openGauss vs. SQLite

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Name

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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.72
Rank	#100	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	1.11
Rank	#175	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dolphindb.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Huawei and openGauss community

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2018

2010

2019

2000

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

3.0, March 2022

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL 2011

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Java

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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

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

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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