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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. GeoSpock vs. Graph Engine vs. HEAVY.AI vs. NCache

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. GeoSpock vs. Graph Engine vs. HEAVY.AI vs. NCache

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be 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 instanceSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
geospock.comwww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.alachisoft.com/­ncache
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.heavy.aiwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsGeoSpockMicrosoftHEAVY.AI, Inc.Alachisoft
Initial release2023201020162005
Current release1.0, March 20232.0, September 20195.10, January 20225.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++Java, Javascript.NET and CC++ and CUDAC#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxhosted.NETLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnotemporal, categoricalnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noyesSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBCRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native 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
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoyesnono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynononoyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infoRound robinyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnononooptimistic locking and pessimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)
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DragonflyGeoSpockGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022NCache
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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