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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. FoundationDB vs. Ingres vs. MarkLogic

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Well established RDBMSOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
github.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.progress.com/­marklogic
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.actian.com/­ingreswww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentation
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsFoundationDBActian CorporationMarkLogic Corp.
Initial release202320131974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2001
Current release1.0, March 20236.2.28, November 202011.2, May 202211.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial inforestricted free version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++CC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysno infosome layers support typingyesyes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnosupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesyes infoSQL92
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protocol.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
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
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuain SQL-layer onlyyesyes infovia XQuery or JavaScript
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesIngres Replicatoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlyyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDACIDACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes infoMVCCyes
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.yesnoyes, with Range Indexes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

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