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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. GBase vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. LeanXcale

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. GBase vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. LeanXcale

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  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 instanceWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.gbase.cncloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.hawkular.orgwww.leanxcale.com
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docscloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guide
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.GoogleCommunity supported by Red HatLeanXcale
Initial release20232004201520142015
Current release1.0, March 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C, Java, PythonJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesnoyes
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 indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsnonoyes infothrough Apache Derby
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP RESTJDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
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#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functionsnono
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesnoyes infovia Hawkular Alerting
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDAtomic single-row operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)no

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