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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. Memgraph vs. RRDtool vs. Splunk vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Memgraph vs. RRDtool vs. Splunk vs. SwayDB

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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 instanceAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jIndustry 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.Analytics Platform for Big DataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
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Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
memgraph.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.splunk.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsmemgraph.com/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsMemgraph LtdTobias OetikerSplunk Inc.Simer Plaha
Initial release20232017199920032018
Current release1.0, March 20231.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableScala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxHP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesNumeric data onlyyesno
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolBolt protocol
Cypher query language
in-process shared library
Pipes
HTTP REST
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++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
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#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoyesno
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infodynamic graph partitioningnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using RAFTnoneMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationships in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACID infowith snapshot isolationnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationUsers, roles and permissionsnoAccess rights for users and rolesno
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DragonflyMemgraphRRDtoolSplunkSwayDB
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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