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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. GeoMesa vs. SiriDB vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

docs.siridb.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

CCRi and others

Cesbit

DataChemist Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2023

2014

2017

2018

2011

Current release

1.0, March 2023

5.0.0, May 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

scheme-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

Numeric data

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

.Net

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++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

depending on storage layer

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

simple rights management via user accounts

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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