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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Rockset

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  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 instanceDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA multi-model DBMS and application serverA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacherockset.com
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.intersystems.comdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsIBMInterSystemsRockset
Initial release2023201719972019
Current release1.0, March 20232.02018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemescheme-freeyesdepending on used data modelschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesdynamic typing
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnonoyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
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
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesyesno
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serverNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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