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DBMS > DolphinDB vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. NSDb vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. NSDb vs. TimescaleDB

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
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.A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.commaxdb.sap.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesnsdb.iowww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.timescale.com
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997MicrosoftTimescale
Initial release20181984201220172017
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20227.9.10.12, February 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availablecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C++Java, ScalaC
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnoSQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnonouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDoptimistic lockingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, Groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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