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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. JanusGraph vs. Newts vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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 instanceA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Time Series DBMS based on CassandraDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
janusgraph.orgopennms.github.io/­newtsrethinkdb.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.janusgraph.orggithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikirethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusOpenNMS GroupThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Simer Plaha
Initial release20232017201420092018
Current release1.0, March 20230.6.3, February 20232.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC++Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
HTTP REST
Java 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
Clojure
Java
Python
JavaC infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesnono
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Sharding infobased on CassandraSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDnoAtomic single-document operationsAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Servernoyes infousers and table-level permissionsno

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