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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. GeoMesa vs. KairosDB vs. SurrealDB

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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 instanceGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
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Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.geomesa.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlkairosdb.github.iosurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsCCRi and othersSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2023201420132022
Current release1.0, March 20235.0.0, May 20241.2.2, November 2018v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++ScalaJavaRust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
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
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanono
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layerselectable 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 Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnonoACID
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.yesdepending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagesimple password-based access controlyes, based on authentication and database rules

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