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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. Dragonfly vs. Geode vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB

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NameDataFS  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAll data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.09
Rank#360  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitenewdatabase.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
geode.apache.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4terminusdb.com
Technical documentationdev.mobiland.com/­Overview.xspwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsgeode.apache.org/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperMobiland AGDragonflyDB team and community contributorsOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.STS Soft SCDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20182023200220112018
Current release1.1.263, October 20221.0, March 20231.1, February 20174.0.8, September 201511.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC#Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsWindowsLinuxAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredWindowsLinux
Data schemeClasses, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)scheme-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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 indexesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (OQL)noSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net
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
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersno, except callback-events from server when changes happenedpublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesProprietary Sharding systemShardingnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsyes, on a single nodenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlWindows-ProfilePassword-based authenticationAccess rights per client and object definablenoRole-based access control

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