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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. Lovefield vs. ObjectBox vs. RRDtool vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Lovefield vs. ObjectBox vs. RRDtool vs. Sphinx

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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 instanceEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
google.github.io/­lovefieldobjectbox.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.objectbox.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsGoogleObjectBox LimitedTobias OetikerSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20232014201719992001
Current release1.0, March 20232.1.12, February 20171.8.0, 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptC and C++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesNumeric data onlyno
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.nononono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolProprietary native APIin-process shared library
Pipes
Proprietary protocol
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
JavaScriptC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanononono
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityUsing read-only observersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneonline/offline synchronization between client and servernonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDBnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationnoyesnono
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