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DBMS > DataFS vs. Dragonfly vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. Dragonfly vs. Sphinx

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NameDataFS  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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 instanceOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSKey-value storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.02
Rank#369  Overall
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#255  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitenewdatabase.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
sphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdev.mobiland.com/­Overview.xspwww.dragonflydb.io/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperMobiland AGDragonflyDB team and community contributorsSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release201820232001
Current release1.1.263, October 20221.0, March 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++C++
Server operating systemsWindowsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeClasses, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)scheme-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysno
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.nono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolProprietary protocol
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
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuano
Triggersno, except callback-events from server when changes happenedpublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesProprietary Sharding systemSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual 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 infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlWindows-ProfilePassword-based authenticationno

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