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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Sphinx vs. Transwarp ArgoDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
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.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architectureA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSearch engine
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Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.07
Rank#350  Overall
#153  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.comsphinxsearch.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodbvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODBvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncSphinx Technologies Inc.TranswarpVelocityDB Inc
Initial release201820012011
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20223.5.1, February 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
Proprietary protocol.Net
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
TriggersnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, GroupsnoBased on Windows Authentication

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