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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#255	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

galaxybase.com

boilerbay.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Boiler Bay Inc.

Initial release

2014

2023

2017

2002

Current release

1.0, March 2023

Nov 20, November 2021

4.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C and Java

Java

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

scheme-free

Strong typed schema

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

Go
Java
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined procedures and functions

Triggers

yes

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

Password-based authentication

Role-based access control

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