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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Linter vs. PostGIS vs. TDengine vs. Trafodion

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded 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.RDBMS for high security requirementsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLTime Series DBMS and big data platformTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#346  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.comlinter.rupostgis.netgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
trafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.tdengine.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperDolphinDB, Increlex.ruTDEngine, previously Taos DataApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20181990200520192014
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20223.4.2, February 20243.0, August 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++CCC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesyesStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLuser defined functionsnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesyesyes, via alarm monitoringno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLyesyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDACID
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, Groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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DolphinDBLinterPostGISTDengineTrafodion
Specific characteristicsTDengineā„¢ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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