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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. mSQL vs. Newts vs. Spark SQL

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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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

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Score	0.49
Rank	#261	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

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

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

opennms.github.io/newts

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Hughes Technologies

OpenNMS Group

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2023

1994

2014

Current release

1.0, March 2023

4.4, October 2021

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

scheme-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Java

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

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