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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. HarperDB vs. PostGIS

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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

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.49
Rank	#261	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

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

www.harperdb.io

postgis.net

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

docs.harperdb.io/docs

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

HarperDB

Initial release

2023

2017

2005

Current release

1.0, March 2023

3.1, August 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Node.js

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

scheme-free

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

JSON data types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
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

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

user defined functions

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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 and roles

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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