DBMS > Dragonfly vs. Google BigQuery vs. SQL.JS vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Google BigQuery vs. SQL.JS vs. TimesTen

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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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#246	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery

sql.js.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Google

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2023

2010

2012

1998

Current release

1.0, March 2023

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

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

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

scheme-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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JavaScript API

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

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
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

in JavaScript

PL/SQL

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

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

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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