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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. EXASOL vs. GridGain vs. Memgraph

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. EXASOL vs. GridGain vs. Memgraph

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  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 instanceHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.exasol.comwww.gridgain.commemgraph.com
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlmemgraph.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsExasolGridGain Systems, Inc.Memgraph Ltd
Initial release2023200020072017
Current release1.0, March 2023GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++Java, C++, .NetC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemescheme-freeyesyesschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protocol.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
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
Java
Lua
Python
R
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDACIDACID infowith snapshot isolation
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsUsers, roles and permissions
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DragonflyEXASOLGridGainMemgraph
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Licensing and pricing modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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