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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Hive vs. Oracle vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb

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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

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Widely used RDBMS

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

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

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

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

hive.apache.org

www.oracle.com/database

prometheus.io

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

docs.oracle.com/en/database

prometheus.io/docs

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Oracle

quasardb

Initial release

2023

2012

1980

2015

2009

Current release

1.0, March 2023

3.1.3, April 2022

23c, September 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

scheme-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

Numeric data only

yes

integer and binary

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

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP 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

C++
Java
PHP
Python

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

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

by Federation

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

can be realized in PL/SQL

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

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

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

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'

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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