DBMS > Dragonfly vs. EsgynDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. ObjectBox vs. PostgreSQL

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. EsgynDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. ObjectBox vs. PostgreSQL

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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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Widely used open source RDBMS

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

Primary database model

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

with pgvector extension

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	645.54
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.esgyn.cn

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

objectbox.io

www.postgresql.org

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.objectbox.io

www.postgresql.org/docs

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Esgyn

Microsoft

ObjectBox Limited

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

www.postgresql.org/developer

Initial release

2023

2015

2017

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

Current release

1.0, March 2023

16.3, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

scheme-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

News

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On-device Vector Database for Dart/Flutter
21 May 2024

The first On-Device Vector Database: ObjectBox 4.0
16 May 2024

Edge AI: The era of on-device AI
23 April 2024

In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

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