DolphinDB

7.7easy start · #4 of 36
in Time-Series Databases

Free to practise onyes
Free trialyes
Well documentedyes
Runs where you workyes

Runs on api, Browser, Linux, self-hosted, Web, Windows.

DolphinDB is ranked #4 of 36 in time-series databases on The Geeks Club. It runs on API, Browser extension, Linux, Self-hosted, Web, Windows. There is a free plan. A free trial is offered.

DolphinDB plans and pricing

All plans

DolphinDB Community Edition Free Perpetual license Up to 2 nodes · 2 CPU cores and 8 GB RAM per node dolphindb.com · 3 Oct 2026

DolphinDB Enterprise Trial Free Supports high-availability clusters · Expert technical support dolphindb.com · 3 Oct 2026

Compared on time-series databases

Free plan: Yes
Deployment options: both
SQL support: Yes

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The record

Product: DolphinDB is a real-time analytics and stream-processing platform powered by a high-performance time-series database.
Database engines: It provides storage engines for time-series databases, OLAP, and in-memory OLTP use cases.
Analytics: The product page says DolphinDB offers more than 1,500 built-in functions for analytical tasks.
Streaming: DolphinDB provides more than 10 streaming engines and lets batch and stream processing use the same metric expression.
Programming: DolphinDB supports imperative, vectorized, functional, and SQL programming paradigms.
Scaling and availability: Its distributed system supports horizontal scaling, load balancing, fault tolerance, distributed transactions, and high availability across data nodes, controllers, streaming, and API clients.
Deployment: The maker describes cloud, on-premise, and hybrid deployment options with horizontal cluster scaling.
Use cases: The maker describes use in finance, energy, power, transportation, industrial manufacturing, and scientific research.
Enterprise components: Swordfish is an embedded version of DolphinDB, Shark is its GPU version, Starfish supports quantitative research workflows, and Octopus is a complex event processing engine.
Editor integration: The DolphinDB VS Code extension lets users write and execute DolphinDB scripts and supports code completion, multi-user connections, version control, and debugging.
Python API: The DolphinDB Python API supports Windows amd64, Linux x86_64 and aarch64, and Mac x86_64 and arm64 in the documented environments.
Kafka integration: The Kafka plugin can publish or subscribe to Kafka streams using JSON, DolphinDB, or string formats; on ARM Linux it lacks SASL authentication support and zstd compatibility.
Security: The maker documents user and group access controls, multiple privilege types, function views, RSA encryption, and HTTPS support.
Support: The Enterprise Trial listing includes expert technical support.
Price from: Free

Where it ranks on The Geeks Club

Best Time-Series Databases in 2026#4 of 36
Best OLAP Software in 2026#6 of 31
Best Multimodel Databases in 2026#4 of 26

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Sources

dolphindb.com/product· checked 3 Oct 2026
dolphindb.com· checked 3 Oct 2026
docs.dolphindb.com/en/pydoc/QuickStart/Install.html· checked 3 Oct 2026
docs.dolphindb.com/en/Plugins/kafka.html· checked 3 Oct 2026
docs.dolphindb.com/en/Tutorials/ACL_and_Security.html· checked 3 Oct 2026