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DBMS > DolphinDB vs. Ingres vs. Postgres-XL vs. Teradata Aster vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Ingres vs. Postgres-XL vs. Teradata Aster vs. TinkerGraph

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.Well established RDBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.postgres-xl.orgtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmldocs.actian.com/­ingreswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncActian CorporationTeradata
Initial release20181974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20052009
Current releasev2.00.4, January 202211.2, May 202210 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availablecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityyes infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functionsR packagesno
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyhorizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesIngres Replicatoryes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACID infoMVCCACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, Groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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