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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. InfluxDB vs. Linter vs. MySQL vs. Realm

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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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

RDBMS for high security requirements

Widely used open source RDBMS

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Website

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

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

linter.ru

www.mysql.com

realm.io

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

dev.mysql.com/doc

realm.io/docs

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

relex.ru

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2023

2013

1990

1995

2014

Current release

1.0, March 2023

2.7.6, April 2024

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

scheme-free

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native 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

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes

proprietary syntax

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

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