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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LMDB vs. TypeDB

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
github.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbtypedb.com
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroiccloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.lmdb.tech/­doctypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsSpotifyIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SymasVaticle
Initial release20232014201020112016
Current release1.0, March 20230.9.32, January 20242.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++JavaErlangCJava
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIgRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
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
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.yesnonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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DragonflyHeroicIBM CloudantLMDBTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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