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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. HEAVY.AI vs. LokiJS vs. SpatiaLite

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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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

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

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

docs.heavy.ai

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2023

2016

2014

2008

Current release

1.0, March 2023

5.10, January 2022

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++ and CUDA

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

server-less

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JavaScript 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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

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

none

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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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