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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. Hazelcast vs. Sqrrl vs. SurrealDB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Hazelcast vs. Sqrrl vs. SurrealDB vs. TigerGraph

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been 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 gridAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Document store
Graph DBMS
Graph 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
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
hazelcast.comsqrrl.comsurrealdb.comwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docssurrealdb.com/­docsdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsHazelcastAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20232008201220222017
Current release1.0, March 20235.3.6, November 2023v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaRustC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemescheme-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyesyes
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 strategyno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
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
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesnoyes
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes infoEventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomaking use of Hadoop
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoReplicated Mapselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoop
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
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 commitedAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entityACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyesyes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationRole-based access controlCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)yes, based on authentication and database rulesRole-based access control

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