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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. GBase vs. Kinetica vs. RDF4J vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. GBase vs. Kinetica vs. RDF4J vs. ToroDB

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is 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.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRDF storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.gbase.cnwww.kinetica.comrdf4j.orggithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.kinetica.comrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.KineticaSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.8Kdata
Initial release20232004201220042016
Current release1.0, March 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c7.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, Java, PythonC, C++JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemescheme-freeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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 indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
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 (Node.js)
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationyesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoAccess rights for users and roles

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