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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Prometheus vs. ScyllaDB vs. Warp 10

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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

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.dolphindb.com

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

prometheus.io

www.scylladb.com

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

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

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

prometheus.io/docs

docs.scylladb.com

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Microsoft

ScyllaDB

SenX

Initial release

2018

1989

2015

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

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)

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

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

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

yes, Lua

yes

WarpScript

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

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

by Federation

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

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

none

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

in-memory tables

yes

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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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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