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System Properties Comparison Dolt vs. NSDb vs. OrigoDB vs. SurrealDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	1.02
Rank	#191	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

nsdb.io

origodb.com

surrealdb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

DoltHub Inc

Robert Friberg et al

SurrealDB Ltd

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2018

2017

2009

under the name LiveDB

2022

1987

Current release

v1.5.0, May 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java
Scala

.Net

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

Role based authorization

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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