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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Memcached

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Memcached

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  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 instanceDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release202320102003
Current release1.0, March 20231.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++ErlangC
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysnono
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolRESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocol
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++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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