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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenTenBase vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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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.

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.72
Rank	#100	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dolphindb.com

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.objectbox.io

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

ObjectBox Limited

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2018

2017

1992

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

4.0 (May 2024)

2.5, January 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

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29 May 2024

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