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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. JSqlDb

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Name

JSqlDB 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

A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	0.49
Rank	#244	Overall
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	2.80
Rank	#91	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

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

cloud.google.com/spanner

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Google

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

2023

2017

2018

Current release

1.0, March 2023

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

scheme-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful 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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

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 with 3 replicas for regional instances.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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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