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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. OpenSearch vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. STSdb

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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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

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

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Amazon Web Services

Percona

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2023

2021

2008

2011

Current release

1.0, March 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

8.0.36-28, 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

scheme-free

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client 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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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Specific characteristics

OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing models

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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