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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. Milvus vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

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.

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dolphindb.com

machbase.com

milvus.io

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

Technical documentation

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

machbase.com/dbms

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Machbase

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2018

2013

2019

1984

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

V8.0, August 2023

2.3.4, January 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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.

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

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

simple password-based access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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