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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Drizzle vs. Newts vs. Quasardb vs. Splunk

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  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.
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.Time Series DBMS based on CassandraDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
opennms.github.io/­newtsquasar.aiwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerOpenNMS GroupquasardbSplunk Inc.
Initial release20232008201420092003
Current release1.0, March 20237.2.4, September 20123.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like query languageno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBCHTTP REST
Java API
HTTP APIHTTP REST
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
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanononoyes
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDnoACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailAccess rights for users and roles

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