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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. Drizzle vs. FoundationDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Drizzle vs. FoundationDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. PouchDB

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Document store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
github.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.gigaspaces.compouchdb.com
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerFoundationDBGigaspaces TechnologiesApache Software Foundation
Initial release20232008201320002012
Current release1.0, March 20237.2.4, September 20126.2.28, November 202015.5, September 20207.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++Java, C++, .NetJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemescheme-freeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesno infosome layers support typingyesno
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 infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatano
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionssupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-99 for query and DML statementsno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBCGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
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
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoin SQL-layer onlyyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes, event driven architectureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesin SQL-layer onlynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoRole-based access controlno

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