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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. FoundationDB

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.

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

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

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Score	0.53
Rank	#244	Overall
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.89
Rank	#197	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#29	Key-value stores
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/apple/foundationdb

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

apple.github.io/foundationdb

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

FoundationDB

Initial release

2023

2013

Current release

1.0, March 2023

6.2.28, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

scheme-free

schema-free

some layers support schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

some layers support typing

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

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

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

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

in SQL-layer only

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Linearizable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

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

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

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