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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.gbase.cngeospock.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.GeoSpockIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release202320042010
Current release1.0, March 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.0, September 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C, Java, PythonJava, JavascriptErlang
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxhostedhosted
Data schemescheme-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesno
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyestemporal, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)no
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBCRESTful HTTP/JSON API
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#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functionsnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationyesAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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