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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. Netezza vs. Teradata Aster vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Netezza vs. Teradata Aster vs. TerarkDB

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.ibm.com/­products/­netezzagithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsIBMTeradataByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2023200020052016
Current release1.0, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infoincluded in applianceLinux
Data schemescheme-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesno
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.noyes infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
C++ API
Java API
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
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesR packagesno
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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