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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. H2 vs. Hypertable vs. MonetDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed 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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.41
Rank	#266	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.h2database.com

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Thomas Mueller

Hypertable Inc.

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2023

2005

2009

2004

Current release

1.0, March 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

scheme-free

yes

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Thrift

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

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

Java

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

selectable replication factor on file system level

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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