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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Interbase vs. Newts vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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 BorlandTime Series DBMS based on CassandraBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseopennms.github.io/­newtswww.postgres-xl.orgquasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsEmbarcaderoOpenNMS Groupquasardb
Initial release2023198420142014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2009
Current release1.0, March 2023InterBase 2020, December 201910 R1, October 20183.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CJavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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 possiblenoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP 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
Java.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenouser defined functionsno
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationInterbase Change Viewsselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDnoACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnonoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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