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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Fauna vs. Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo vs. RethinkDB

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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.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.55
Rank	#143	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#13	Graph DBMS
	#66	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#348	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

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

fauna.com

google.github.io/lovefield

machbase.com

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

docs.fauna.com

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

machbase.com/dbms

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Fauna, Inc.

Google

Machbase

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2023

2014

2013

2009

Current release

1.0, March 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

V8.0, August 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
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#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

Using read-only observers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

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

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

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

Identity management, authentication, and access control

simple password-based access control

yes

users and table-level permissions

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