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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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Key-value store

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

hbase.apache.org

opennms.github.io/newts

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

hbase.apache.org/book.html

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2023

2008

2014

2017

Current release

1.0, March 2023

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

scheme-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP REST
Java API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

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#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Java

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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 or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual 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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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 Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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