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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Hazelcast vs. Transbase

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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 widely adopted in-memory data grid

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	0.46
Rank	#253	Overall
	#37	Key-value stores

Score	5.57
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#357	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

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

hazelcast.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Hazelcast

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2023

2008

1987

Current release

1.0, March 2023

5.3.6, November 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

scheme-free

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native 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++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Replicated Map

Source-replica replication

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 or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

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

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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