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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. DuckDB vs. Kuzu vs. Transbase

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Name

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

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

An embeddable property Graph DBMS built for query speed and scalability

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

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Score	0.53
Rank	#244	Overall
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	7.44
Rank	#44	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#370	Overall
	#38	Graph DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#155	Relational DBMS

Website

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

duckdb.org

kuzudb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

duckdb.org/docs

docs.kuzudb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2023

2018

2022

1987

Current release

1.0, March 2023

1.0.0, June 2024

0.4.2, May 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

MIT license

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

scheme-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
Cypher Query Language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native 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#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Rust

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate 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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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