DBMS > Dragonfly vs. Drizzle vs. GigaSpaces vs. Google BigQuery vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Drizzle vs. GigaSpaces vs. Google BigQuery vs. PouchDB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

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Score	0.49
Rank	#261	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

www.gigaspaces.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Gigaspaces Technologies

Google

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2023

2008

2000

2010

2012

Current release

1.0, March 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

15.5, September 2020

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++, .Net

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

scheme-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

JDBC

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Role-based access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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