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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Geode vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hive vs. searchxml

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  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 instanceGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
geode.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­spannerhive.apache.orgwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsgeode.apache.org/­docscloud.google.com/­spanner/­docscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homewww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.GoogleApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by Facebookinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20232002201720122015
Current release1.0, March 20231.1, February 20173.1.3, April 20221.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhostedAll OS with a Java VMWindows
Data schemescheme-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)yes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011SQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
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
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functionsnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes infoon the application server
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes infoCache Event Listenersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.selectable replication factoryes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsyes, on a single nodeACID infoStrict serializable isolationnomultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and rolesDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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