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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Hazelcast vs. Oracle vs. STSdb vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Widely used RDBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

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

hazelcast.com

www.oracle.com/database

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Hazelcast

Oracle

STS Soft SC

8Kdata

Initial release

2023

2008

1980

2011

2016

Current release

1.0, March 2023

5.3.6, November 2023

23c, September 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

scheme-free

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

.NET Client 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

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Replicated Map

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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