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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Ingres vs. LokiJS vs. Sadas Engine

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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

Well established RDBMS

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

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Score	0.44
Rank	#255	Overall
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Score	3.63
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

docs.actian.com/ingres

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Actian Corporation

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2023

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2014

2006

Current release

1.0, March 2023

12.0, July 2024

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

scheme-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

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

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Ingres Replicator

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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