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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. EXASOL vs. Heroic vs. Kinetica vs. TerarkDB

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.exasol.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.exasol.com/­resourcesspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.kinetica.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsExasolSpotifyKineticaByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20232000201420122016
Current release1.0, March 20237.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC, C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Data schemescheme-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protocol.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java 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
Java
Lua
Python
R
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functionsnouser defined functionsno
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelno

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