DBMS > Dragonfly vs. GigaSpaces vs. Google BigQuery vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. GigaSpaces vs. Google BigQuery vs. Quasardb

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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

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

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Score	0.44
Rank	#255	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	0.91
Rank	#197	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#7	Object oriented DBMS

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

www.gigaspaces.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Gigaspaces Technologies

Google

quasardb

Initial release

2023

2000

2010

2009

Current release

1.0, March 2023

15.5, September 2020

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

scheme-free

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

integer and binary

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

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++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes, event driven architecture

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

Role-based access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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