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DBMS > Citus vs. Dragonfly vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Dragonfly vs. Heroic

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
github.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsSpotify
Initial release201020232014
Current release8.1, December 20181.0, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageCC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesscheme-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes
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.yes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.Luano
Triggersyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPassword-based authentication

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