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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. OpenEdge vs. Postgres-XL vs. Realm

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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.

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	7.18
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Website

www.dolphindb.com

www.progress.com/openedge

www.postgres-xl.org

realm.io

Technical documentation

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

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

realm.io/docs

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Progress Software Corporation

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2018

1984

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2014

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

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

MVCC

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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