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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Interbase vs. LeanXcale vs. XTDB

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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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

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

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

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

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.leanxcale.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Embarcadero

LeanXcale

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2023

1984

2015

2019

Current release

1.0, March 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

scheme-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

HTTP REST
JDBC

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
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C
Java
Scala

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Interbase Change Views

yes, each node contains all data

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

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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