DBMS > Dragonfly vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. MariaDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. MariaDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SiriDB

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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

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

siridb.com

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.siridb.com

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

InterSystems

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Oracle

Cesbit

Initial release

2023

2018

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2007

2017

Current release

1.0, March 2023

2023.3, June 2023

11.3.2, February 2024

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

scheme-free

depending on used data model

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

Numeric data

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP 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
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

.Net
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

simple rights management via user accounts

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