DBMS > Dragonfly vs. FileMaker vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. FileMaker vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SurrealDB

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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

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

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

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Microsoft

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2023

1983

1989

2022

Current release

1.0, March 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

scheme-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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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