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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Dragonfly vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Oracle Coherence

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceOracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score27.71
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websiteblueflood.iogithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdblearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-dbdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperRackspaceDragonflyDB team and community contributorsMicrosoftOracle
Initial release20132023201320142007
Current release1.0, March 20232.7.6, April 202414.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++GoJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
LinuxLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hostedAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemepredefined schemescheme-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysNumeric data and Stringsyes infoJSON typesyes
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
Secondary indexesnononoyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by defaultno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolHTTP API
JSON over UDP
DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
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
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanoJavaScriptno
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynoJavaScriptyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnoMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partitionconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infooptionally
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPassword-based authenticationsimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication
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