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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. OpenSearch vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

Google'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

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.49
Rank	#261	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	3.15
Rank	#95	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

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

cloud.google.com/bigtable

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

yanza.com

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Google

Chris Davis

Amazon Web Services

Yanza

Initial release

2023

2015

2006

2021

2015

Current release

1.0, March 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C++

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

scheme-free

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Numeric data only

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

HTTP API
Sockets

Java API
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

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

none

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

Atomic single-row operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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