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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. jBASE vs. MarkLogic vs. NCache vs. Tkrzw

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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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Key-value store

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	5.92
Rank	#58	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.marklogic.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.marklogic.com

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

MarkLogic Corp.

Alachisoft

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2023

1991

2001

2005

2020

Current release

1.0, March 2023

5.7

11.0, December 2022

5.3.3, April 2024

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

scheme-free

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

optional

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

SQL92

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native 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

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

optimistic locking and pessimistic 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

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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