DBMS > DolphinDB vs. Oracle vs. Rockset vs. Sqrrl vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Oracle vs. Rockset vs. Sqrrl vs. Yanza

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

Widely used RDBMS

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

www.dolphindb.com

www.oracle.com/database

rockset.com

sqrrl.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.rockset.com

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Oracle

Rockset

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Yanza

Initial release

2018

1980

2019

2012

2015

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP REST

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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