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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. ObjectBox

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databaseobjectbox.io
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsEmbarcaderoMicrosoftObjectBox Limited
Initial release2023198420102017
Current release1.0, March 2023InterBase 2020, December 2019V12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++CC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyes
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 infoexport as XML data possibleyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
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
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageTransact SQLno
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationInterbase Change Viewsyes, with always 3 replicas availableonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
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