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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. H2GIS

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  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 instanceGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperSpatial extension of H2
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
cloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.h2gis.org
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docscloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.h2gis.org/­docs/­home
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsGoogleChris DavisCNRS
Initial release2023201520062013
Current release1.0, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++PythonJava
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
Unix
Data schemescheme-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysnoNumeric data onlyyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
Sockets
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
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanonoyes infobased on H2
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnoneyes infobased on H2
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsAtomic single-row operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes infolockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noyes infobased on H2

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