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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. RocksDB vs. Tkrzw vs. VoltDB

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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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

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

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

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

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

rocksdb.org

dbmx.net/tkrzw

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Mikio Hirabayashi

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2023

2014

2013

2020

2010

Current release

1.0, March 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

0.9.3, August 2020

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

scheme-free

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

JSON types

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

C++ API
Java API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

JavaScript

Java

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

yes

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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