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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Solr

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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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

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

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

kairosdb.github.io

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2023

2013

1989

2006

Current release

1.0, March 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

scheme-free

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Java plugins

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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