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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Firebolt vs. MonetDB

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  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 instanceHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.firebolt.iowww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.firebolt.iowww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsFirebolt Analytics Inc.MonetDB BV
Initial release202320202004
Current release1.0, March 2023Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyes
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
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protocol.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
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
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layernone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
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 authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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