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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. GBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.49
Rank	#261	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.gbase.cn

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

ignite.apache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

IBM

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Initial release

2023

2004

2017

2015

1989

Current release

1.0, March 2023

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.0

Apache Ignite 2.6

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, Java, Python

C and C++

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

scheme-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

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

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

yes

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Active-active shard replication

yes (replicated cache)

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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