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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. InfluxDB vs. PostGIS vs. Typesense

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTypesense  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 metricsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.76
Rank#219  Overall
#14  Search engines
Websitewww.dolphindb.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewpostgis.nettypesense.org
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbpostgis.net/­documentationtypesense.org/­docs
DeveloperDolphinDB, Inc
Initial release2018201320052015
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20222.7.6, April 20243.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++GoCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free infopre-defined schema optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageyesno
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
RESTful HTTP API
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 infocommunity maintained
Clojure infocommunity maintained
Dart infocommunity maintained
Go infocommunity maintained
Java infocommunity maintained
JavaScript
Perl infocommunity maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust infocommunity maintained
Swift infocommunity maintained
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infoin enterprise version onlyyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoDepending on used storage enginenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, Groupssimple rights management via user accountsyes infobased on PostgreSQL
More information provided by the system vendor
DolphinDBInfluxDBPostGISTypesense
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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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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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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