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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems Caché vs. JanusGraph vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems Caché vs. JanusGraph vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is 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 instanceDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA multi-model DBMS and application serverA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachejanusgraph.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.intersystems.comdocs.janusgraph.orgdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014InterSystemsLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusRocket Software
Initial release20232010199720171985
Current release1.0, March 20232018.1.4, May 20200.6.3, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangJavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeschema-freedepending on used data modelyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysnoyesyesoptional
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolRESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based 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
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
Clojure
Java
Python
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesyesyes
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesyesyesyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACIDACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users, groups and rolesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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