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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graphite vs. SAP HANA

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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

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

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	13.60
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	5.19
Rank	#62	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

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

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

firebase.google.com/docs/database

graphite.readthedocs.io

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Chris Davis

SAP

Initial release

2023

2012

2006

2010

Current release

1.0, March 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Python

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
Unix

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

scheme-free

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

yes

Numeric data only

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
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

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

limited functionality with using 'rules'

SQLScript, R

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

none

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

locking

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

yes

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