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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. OrientDB vs. Snowflake vs. SQLite vs. Trafodion

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDolphinDB 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.Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.comorientdb.orgwww.snowflake.comwww.sqlite.orgtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmldocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPSnowflake Computing Inc.Dwayne Richard HippApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20182010201420002014
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20223.2.29, March 20243.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++JavaCC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)hostedserver-lessLinux
Data schemeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes infodynamic column typesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language, no joinsyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava, Javascriptuser defined functionsnoJava Stored Procedures
TriggersnoHooksno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingyesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationyesnoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesno infocould be achieved with distributed queriesnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationship in graphsyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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