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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. FileMaker vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. FileMaker vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. ObjectBox

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Fully managed big data interactive analytics platformLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoIf a column is of type dynamic docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types/­dynamic then it's possible to add arbitrary JSON documents in this cell
Event Store infothis is the general usage pattern at Microsoft. Billing, Logs, Telemetry events are stored in ADX and the state of an individual entity is defined by the arg_max(timestamps)
Spatial DBMS
Search engine infosupport for complex search expressions docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­parseoperator FTS, Geospatial docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­geo-point-to-geohash-function distributed search -> ADX acts as a distributed search engine
Time Series DBMS infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer/­time-series-analysis
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.44
Rank#255  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score3.28
Rank#83  Overall
#45  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.claris.com/­filemakerazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorergithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleMicrosoftObjectBox Limited
Initial release2023198320192017
Current release1.0, March 202319.4.1, November 2021cloud service with continuous releases4.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialcommercialBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeyesFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesyes, plus "flex" map-like types
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native API
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
PHP.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Rno
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAzure Active Directory Authenticationyes
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