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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. Hazelcast vs. NuoDB vs. RRDtool vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Hazelcast vs. NuoDB vs. RRDtool vs. Teradata Aster

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceA widely adopted in-memory data gridNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
hazelcast.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databaseoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdoc.nuodb.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsHazelcastDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Tobias OetikerTeradata
Initial release20232008201319992005
Current release1.0, March 20235.3.6, November 20231.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Data schemescheme-freeschema-freeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
in-process shared library
Pipes
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
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++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesJava, SQLnoR packages
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes infoEventsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtennoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoReplicated Mapyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBnoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACID infotunable commit protocolnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes infoMVCCyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoTemporary tableyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationRole-based access controlStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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