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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Dragonfly vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Dragonfly vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Postgres-XL

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelGraph DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitedgraph.iogithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
firebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docswww.dragonflydb.io/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.DragonflyDB team and community contributorsGoogleInterSystems
Initial release20162023201720182014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release1.0, March 20232023.3, June 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1commercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxhostedAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeschema-freedepending on used data modelyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyes
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.nononoyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
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
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuayes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyesuser defined functions
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes, with Cloud Functionsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoUsing Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsyesACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesPassword-based authenticationAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.yesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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