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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Elasticsearch vs. STSdb

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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

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Key-value store

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.41
Rank	#266	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Elastic

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2023

2010

2011

Current release

1.0, March 2023

8.6, January 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

scheme-free

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client 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

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

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

Memcached and Redis integration

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

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