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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Dragonfly vs. EJDB vs. Prometheus vs. TimescaleDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
github.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbprometheus.iowww.timescale.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.dragonflydb.io/­docsgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdprometheus.io/­docsdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperAltibaseDragonflyDB team and community contributorsSoftmotionsTimescale
Initial release19992023201220152017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.0, March 20232.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++CGoC
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linuxserver-lessLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesscheme-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idNumeric data onlynumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonono infoImport of XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92nononoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protocolin-process shared libraryRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
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
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsLuanonouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnoneyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPassword-based authenticationnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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