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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. InfluxDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Snowflake vs. Stardog

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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

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#123	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

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

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.snowflake.com

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.stardog.com

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Oracle

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2023

2013

2011

2014

2010

Current release

1.0, March 2023

2.7.6, April 2024

23.3, December 2023

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

scheme-free

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Numeric data and Strings

optional

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

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

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#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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