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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Heroic vs. jBASE vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

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

Score	0.49
Rank	#261	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

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

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Spotify

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2023

2014

1991

2014

Current release

1.0, March 2023

5.7

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

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

optional

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

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

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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

ACID

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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