DBMS > Dragonfly vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Geode vs. RocksDB vs. SingleStore

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Geode vs. RocksDB vs. SingleStore

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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

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.41
Rank	#266	Overall
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Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
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	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
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Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
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Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

geode.apache.org

rocksdb.org

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

geode.apache.org/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

FairCom Corporation

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Facebook, Inc.

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2023

1979

2002

2013

Current release

1.0, March 2023

V3, October 2020

1.1, February 2017

8.11.4, April 2024

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

ANSI C, C++

Java

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

scheme-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

yes, on a single node

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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 user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Access rights per client and object definable

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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