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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. Ingres vs. Spark SQL vs. Splice Machine vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Ingres vs. Spark SQL vs. Splice Machine vs. Trafodion

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded 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 instanceWell established RDBMSSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.actian.com/­databases/­ingresspark.apache.org/­sqlsplicemachine.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.actian.com/­ingresspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-workstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsActian CorporationApache Software FoundationSplice MachineApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20231974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201420142014
Current release1.0, March 202311.2, May 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.1, March 20212.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CScalaJavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemescheme-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyesyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protocol.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
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
Java
Python
R
Scala
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesnoyes infoJavaJava Stored Procedures
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyyes, utilizing Spark CoreShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationIngres ReplicatornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoYes, via Full Spark Integrationyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryes infoMVCCyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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