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DBMS > DolphinDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. Sadas Engine vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. Sadas Engine vs. VelocityDB

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is 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.A multi-model DBMS and application serverBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.postgres-xl.orgwww.sadasengine.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmldocs.intersystems.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncInterSystemsSADAS s.r.l.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release201819972014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20062011
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20222018.1.4, May 202010 R1, October 20188.07.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availablecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CC++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
AIX
Linux
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyesyesyes
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.noyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
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
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
.Net
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C#
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functionsnono
TriggersnoyesyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnonehorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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