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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. EventStoreDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Machbase Neo 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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.49
Rank	#261	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.eventstore.com

boilerbay.com

machbase.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

developers.eventstore.com

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

machbase.com/dbms

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Event Store Limited

Boiler Bay Inc.

Machbase

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2023

2012

2002

2013

2011

Current release

1.0, March 2023

21.2, February 2021

4.0

V8.0, August 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

scheme-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse 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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

.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

Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

simple password-based access control

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