DBMS > DolphinDB vs. Ignite vs. JSqlDb vs. PostGIS vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Ignite vs. JSqlDb vs. PostGIS vs. Snowflake

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Name

JSqlDB 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.

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

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

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

postgis.net/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Konrad von Backstrom

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2018

2015

2018

2005

2014

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

Apache Ignite 2.6

0.8, December 2018

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

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++

C++, Java, .Net

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes (replicated cache)

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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