DBMS > DolphinDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PieCloudDB vs. PostGIS vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PieCloudDB vs. PostGIS vs. SiteWhere

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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.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.dolphindb.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.openpie.com

postgis.net

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

postgis.net/documentation

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Microsoft

OpenPie

SiteWhere

Initial release

2018

1989

2005

2010

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.1, January 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

based on PostgreSQL

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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