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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. FatDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graphite vs. MaxDB

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. FatDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graphite vs. MaxDB

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Document storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
firebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webmaxdb.sap.com
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegraphite.readthedocs.iomaxdb.sap.com/­documentation
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsFatCloudGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Chris DavisSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release20232012201220061984
Current release1.0, March 20237.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C#PythonC++
Server operating systemsLinuxWindowshostedLinux
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnono infoVia inetgration in SQL Servernonoyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protocol.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languagesC
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#Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayes infovia applicationslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes infovia applicationsCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnoyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsyes, based on authentication and database rulesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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