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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. EJDB vs. RRDtool vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
github.com/­Softmotions/­ejdboss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsSoftmotionsTobias OetikerApache Software FoundationTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20232012199920141987
Current release1.0, March 20231.8.0, 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-lessHP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idNumeric data onlyyesyes
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possiblenono
Secondary indexesnonononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protocolin-process shared libraryin-process shared library
Pipes
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native 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
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanononoyes
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnononoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryes infoRead/Write Lockingyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
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.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationnononofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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