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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Faircom DB vs. OrientDB vs. VoltDB

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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

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.44
Rank	#255	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#314	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#88	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores

Score	1.38
Rank	#156	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

orientdb.org

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

FairCom Corporation

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2023

1979

2010

Current release

1.0, March 2023

V13, July 2024

3.2.29, March 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

ANSI C, C++

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

scheme-free

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Java, Javascript

Java

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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 with additional protections for files

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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