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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Memcached vs. Splunk vs. TerminusDB

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  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.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingAnalytics Platform for Big DataScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeSearch engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.memcached.orgwww.splunk.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalSplunk Inc.DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20182013200320032018
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20222.7.6, April 20241.6.25, March 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++GoCProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsnoyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languagenono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsSQL-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
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Proprietary protocolHTTP RESTOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyesyes
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityMulti-source replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, Groupssimple rights management via user accountsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAccess rights for users and rolesRole-based access control
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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