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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Kingbase vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Transwarp KunDB

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Name	DolphinDB  Xexclude from comparison	Kingbase  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	Transwarp KunDB  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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.	An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models	Relational DBMS	Document store Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 4.03 Rank #78   Overall #6   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.50 Rank #257   Overall #119   Relational DBMS		Score 0.14 Rank #341   Overall #149   Relational DBMS
Website	www.dolphindb.com	www.kingbase.com.cn	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­kundb
Technical documentation	docs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.html
Developer	DolphinDB, Inc	BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.	Sybase, SAP	Transwarp
Initial release	2018	1999	1993
Current release	v2.00.4, January 2022	V8.0, August 2021
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial free community version available	commercial	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	C++	C and Java
Server operating systems	Linux Windows	Linux Windows	Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	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.	no	yes	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like query language	Standard with numerous extensions	yes	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 gokb JDBC kdbndp ODBC PDI PDO Pro*C psycopg2 QT	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	C# C++ Go Java JavaScript MatLab Python R Rust	.Net C C++ Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	user defined functions	yes	yes
Triggers	no	yes	yes	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	horizontal partitioning	horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning	none	horizontal partitioning
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes	yes	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	yes	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	yes	ACID	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes		no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	Administrators, Users, Groups	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	yes
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