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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. Dragonfly vs. Memgraph vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Dragonfly vs. Memgraph vs. RRDtool

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
memgraph.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsmemgraph.com/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDragonflyDB team and community contributorsMemgraph LtdTobias Oetiker
Initial release2014202320171999
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.0, March 20231.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C and C++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinuxHP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesscheme-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesNumeric data only
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.nononono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolBolt protocol
Cypher query language
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
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
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsLuano
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication using RAFTnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACID infowith snapshot isolationno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyPassword-based authenticationUsers, roles and permissionsno
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