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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. EsgynDB vs. etcd vs. NSDb vs. XTDB

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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

A distributed reliable key-value store

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

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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	7.25
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

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

www.esgyn.cn

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

nsdb.io

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Esgyn

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2023

2015

2017

2019

Current release

1.0, March 2023

3.4, August 2019

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Java, Scala

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

scheme-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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 fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

HTTP REST
JDBC

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

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

Java
Scala

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes, watching key changes

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

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

yes, each node contains all data

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

Eventual 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

Using Apache Lucene

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

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