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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Memcached vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  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 instanceIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score17.74
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.52
Rank#251  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.memcached.orgwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalPercona
Initial release202320032015
Current release1.0, March 20231.6.27, May 20243.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++CC++
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemescheme-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysnoyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolProprietary protocolproprietary protocol using JSON
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
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoJavaScript
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAccess rights for users and roles

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