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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Firebird vs. Sphinx

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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 InterBaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.firebirdsql.orgsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsFirebird FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20232000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2001
Current release1.0, March 20235.0.0, January 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesno
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.no
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
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
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaPSQLno
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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