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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Prometheus vs. Riak TS vs. XTDB

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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.

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.dolphindb.com

prometheus.io

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

prometheus.io/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2018

2015

2019

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

3.0.0, September 2022

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes, limited

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by Federation

selectable replication factor

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

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