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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. GigaSpaces vs. OpenQM vs. RDF4J vs. YottaDB

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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

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Multivalue DBMS

RDF store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

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

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

Score	0.28
Rank	#291	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#309	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.gigaspaces.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

rdf4j.org

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

rdf4j.org/documentation

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Gigaspaces Technologies

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2023

2000

1993

2004

2001

Current release

1.0, March 2023

15.5, September 2020

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

scheme-free

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

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

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

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
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Java
PHP
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

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

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

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

Isolation support depends on the API used

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Role-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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