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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. MaxDB vs. Quasardb vs. Sequoiadb vs. TimesTen

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  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 robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
maxdb.sap.comquasar.aiwww.sequoiadb.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997quasardbSequoiadb Ltd.Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20231984200920131998
Current release1.0, March 20237.9.10.12, February 20243.14.1, January 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyes infointeger and binaryyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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 indexesnoyesyes infowith tagsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSONJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
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
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesnoJavaScriptPL/SQL
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoconsistent hashingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDACIDDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTransient modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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