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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. Lovefield vs. SpatiaLite vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Lovefield vs. SpatiaLite vs. Splice Machine

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  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 JavaScriptSpatial extension of SQLiteOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
google.github.io/­lovefieldwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsGoogleAlessandro FurieriSplice Machine
Initial release2023201420082014
Current release1.0, March 20232.1.12, February 20175.0.0, August 20203.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safariserver-lessLinux
OS X
Solaris
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyesyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
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++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanonoyes infoJava
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityUsing read-only observersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual 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 serveryesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDByesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationnonoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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