DBMS > DolphinDB vs. JanusGraph vs. PostGIS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. JanusGraph vs. PostGIS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP HANA

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Name

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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.

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dolphindb.com

janusgraph.org

postgis.net

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.janusgraph.org

postgis.net/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Sybase, SAP

SAP

Initial release

2018

2017

2005

1993

2010

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

0.6.3, February 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Clojure
Java
Python

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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