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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. Firebird vs. Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Firebird vs. Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  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 instanceFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA widely adopted in-memory data gridSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.firebirdsql.orghazelcast.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsFirebird FoundationHazelcastMicrosoft
Initial release20232000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20082015
Current release1.0, March 20235.0.0, January 20245.3.6, November 2023V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageC++C and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemescheme-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyes
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 infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP 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
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaPSQLyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesno
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesyes infoEventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes infoReplicated Mapyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole-based access controlyes infousing Azure authentication

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