DBMS > Dragonfly vs. etcd vs. GeoSpock vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. etcd vs. GeoSpock vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

A distributed reliable key-value store

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

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

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

geospock.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

GeoSpock

Microsoft

Initial release

2023

2014

1989

Current release

1.0, March 2023

3.4, August 2019

2.0, September 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Javascript

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

scheme-free

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

JDBC

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

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

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

JavaScript

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

View functions in JavaScript

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes, watching key changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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