DBMS > DolphinDB vs. Interbase vs. Oracle vs. TempoIQ vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Interbase vs. Oracle vs. TempoIQ vs. TimesTen

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Widely used RDBMS

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dolphindb.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.oracle.com/database

tempoiq.com (offline)

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Embarcadero

Oracle

TempoIQ

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2018

1984

1980

2012

1998

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

InterBase 2020, December 2019

23c, September 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Interbase Change Views

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple authentication-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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