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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. QuestDB 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.

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.16
Rank	#109	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	3.26
Rank	#79	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#314	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.dolphindb.com

questdb.io

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

Technical documentation

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

questdb.io/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

QuestDB Technology Inc

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2018

2014

2019

Current release

v2.00.4, January 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++

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL with time-series extensions

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

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID for single-table writes

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

through memory mapped files

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

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