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System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. Datomic vs. Dragonfly vs. Ignite vs. SwayDB

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NameDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
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Score5.80
Rank#60  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisewww.datomic.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
ignite.apache.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.datastax.comdocs.datomic.comwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsapacheignite.readme.io/­docs
DeveloperDataStaxCognitectDragonflyDB team and community contributorsApache Software FoundationSimer Plaha
Initial release20112012202320152018
Current release6.8, April 20201.0.6735, June 20231.0, March 2023Apache Ignite 2.6
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureC++C++, Java, .NetScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesscheme-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesno
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLnonoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
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#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction FunctionsLuayes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)no
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes (cache interceptors and events)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"none infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationyes (replicated cache)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectnoPassword-based authenticationSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsno
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Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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