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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Galaxybase vs. OrientDB vs. RocksDB

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  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 instanceScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
galaxybase.comorientdb.orgrocksdb.org
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPFacebook, Inc.
Initial release2023201720102013
Current release1.0, March 2023Nov 20, November 20213.2.29, March 20249.2.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C and JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
Data schemescheme-freeStrong typed schemaschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language, no joinsno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
C++ API
Java 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
Go
Java
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined procedures and functionsJava, Javascriptno
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes inforelationship in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableno

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