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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. EsgynDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Informix vs. Manticore Search

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. EsgynDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Informix vs. Manticore Search

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  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 instanceEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
Time Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score17.12
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.esgyn.cngithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.ibm.com/­products/­informixmanticoresearch.com
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.heavy.aiinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
manual.manticoresearch.com
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsEsgynHEAVY.AI, Inc.IBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.Manticore Software
Initial release20232015201619842017
Current release1.0, March 20235.10, January 202214.10.FC5, November 20206.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++, JavaC++ and CUDAC, C++ and JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeyesyesyesFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean
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.nononoCan index from XML
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
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
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaJava Stored Proceduresnoyesuser defined functions
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication between multi datacentersMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDnoACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsno

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