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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. etcd vs. FoundationDB

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. etcd vs. FoundationDB

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 instanceA distributed reliable key-value storeOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#244  Overall
#34  Key-value stores
Score7.08
Rank#47  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score0.89
Rank#199  Overall
#33  Document stores
#30  Key-value stores
#93  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
etcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
github.com/­apple/­foundationdb
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
apple.github.io/­foundationdb
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsFoundationDB
Initial release20232013
Current release1.0, March 20233.4, August 20196.2.28, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++GoC++
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysnono infosome layers support typing
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
Secondary indexesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonosupported in specific SQL layer only
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolgRPC
JSON over HTTP
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++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoin SQL-layer only
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes, watching key changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoin SQL-layer only
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationnono

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