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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. H2GIS vs. LeanXcale

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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

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

Spatial extension of H2

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	0.49
Rank	#261	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Website

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

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.h2gis.org

www.leanxcale.com

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Google

CNRS

LeanXcale

Initial release

2023

2017

2013

2015

Current release

1.0, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

scheme-free

schema-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

through Apache Derby

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

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

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

Java

C
Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

based on H2

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

based on H2

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

yes

based on H2

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