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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenEdge

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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.

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational 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	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	5.92
Rank	#58	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#6	Search engines

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

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

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.marklogic.com

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

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.marklogic.com

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

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Google

acquired by Google 2014

MarkLogic Corp.

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2023

2012

2001

1989

1984

Current release

1.0, March 2023

11.0, December 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

scheme-free

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL92

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

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

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

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

yes

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

Sharding

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

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

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

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

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

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups

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