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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. NuoDB vs. PostGIS vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It 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 instanceNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasepostgis.nettempoiq.com (offline)terminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdoc.nuodb.compostgis.net/­documentationterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.TempoIQDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20232013200520122018
Current release1.0, March 20233.4.2, February 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C++CProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemescheme-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
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++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaJava, SQLuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesyesyes infoRealtime Alertsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenyes infobased on PostgreSQLGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDByes infobased on PostgreSQLJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACID infotunable commit protocolACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryes infoMVCCyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTemporary tablenono
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersyes infobased on PostgreSQLsimple authentication-based access controlRole-based access control

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