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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. Elasticsearch vs. GBase vs. GridGain

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Elasticsearch vs. GBase vs. GridGain

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  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 instanceA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineRelational DBMSColumnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.44
Rank#255  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score128.79
Rank#8  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.11
Rank#173  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#150  Overall
#1  Columnar
#26  Key-value stores
#2  Object oriented DBMS
#69  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.gbase.cnwww.gridgain.com
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.html
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsElasticGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.GridGain Systems, Inc.
Initial release2023201020042007
Current release1.0, March 20238.6, January 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cGridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoElastic Licensecommercialcommercial, open source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++JavaC, Java, PythonJava, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Data schemescheme-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageStandard with numerous extensionsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
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
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesuser defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesyesyes (replicated cache)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectoryes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesMemcached and Redis integrationyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationyesRole-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

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