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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. GigaSpaces vs. InterSystems Caché

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. GigaSpaces vs. InterSystems Caché

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed 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 instanceHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA multi-model DBMS and application server
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Document store
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Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.gigaspaces.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cache
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.intersystems.com
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsGigaspaces TechnologiesInterSystems
Initial release202320001997
Current release1.0, March 202315.5, September 20202018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++Java, C++, .Net
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyes
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.nono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatayes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP 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
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesyes
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes, event driven architectureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles

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