DBMS > Apache Doris vs. Cachelot.io vs. Dragonfly vs. MySQL vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. Cachelot.io vs. Dragonfly vs. MySQL vs. Realm

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Name

Description

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

In-memory caching system

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.60
Rank	#247	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#261	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Website

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

cachelot.io

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

www.mysql.com

realm.io

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

realm.io/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2017

2015

2023

1995

2014

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

1.0, March 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

scheme-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL client

Memcached protocol

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

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

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Lua

yes

proprietary syntax

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Password-based authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

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