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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Kingbase vs. PostGIS

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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.

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

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

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Boiler Bay Inc.

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Initial release

2018

2002

1999

2005

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

4.0

V8.0, August 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

Supported programming languages

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

Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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