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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. FatDB vs. FileMaker vs. LokiJS

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

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

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Website

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

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

FatCloud

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Initial release

2023

2012

1983

2014

Current release

1.0, March 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

scheme-free

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript 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

PHP

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

via applications

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

via applications

yes

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

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

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