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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Fauna vs. GeoMesa vs. RocksDB

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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

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.41
Rank	#266	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

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

fauna.com

www.geomesa.org

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

docs.fauna.com

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Fauna, Inc.

CCRi and others

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2023

2014

2013

Current release

1.0, March 2023

5.0.0, May 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java 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

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

depending on storage layer

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

depending on storage layer

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

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

ACID

yes

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

Identity management, authentication, and access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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