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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenTSDB vs. Stardog

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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.

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#123	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

Technical documentation

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

docs.objectbox.io

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.stardog.com

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

ObjectBox Limited

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2018

2017

2011

2010

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Telnet API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

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

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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