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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. OushuDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	DolphinDB  Xexclude from comparison	Oracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparison	OushuDB  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
				SAP Advantage Database Server 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 in-process key-value store	A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Key-value store supports sorted and unsorted key sets Native XML DBMS in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 4.03 Rank #78   Overall #6   Time Series DBMS	Score 2.01 Rank #126   Overall #21   Key-value stores #3   Native XML DBMS	Score 0.10 Rank #355   Overall #154   Relational DBMS
Website	www.dolphindb.com	www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html	www.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDB	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	docs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.html	docs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html	www.oushu.com/­documentation
Developer	DolphinDB, Inc	Oracle originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle	Oushu	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2018	1994		1993
Current release	v2.00.4, January 2022	18.1.40, May 2020	4.0.1, August 2020
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial free community version available	Open Source commercial license available	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	C++	C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systems	Linux Windows	AIX Android FreeBSD iOS Linux OS X Solaris VxWorks Windows	Linux	Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	schema-free	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	no	yes	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.	no	yes only with the Berkeley DB XML edition		no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like query language	yes SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available	Full-featured ANSI SQL support	yes
APIs and other access methods	JDBC JSON over HTTP Kafka MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) ODBC OPC DA OPC UA RabbitMQ WebSocket		JDBC ODBC	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	C# C++ Go Java JavaScript MatLab Python R Rust	.Net Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET others Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages C C# C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js) 3rd party binding Perl Python Tcl	C C++	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	no	yes	yes
Triggers	no	yes only for the SQL API	yes	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	horizontal partitioning	none	yes	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes	Source-replica replication		Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	yes	no	Hadoop integration	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency			Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no		yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	yes	ACID	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes		yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	yes		no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	Administrators, Users, Groups	no	Kerberos, SSL and role based access	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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