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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Teradata Aster vs. TigerGraph vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Teradata Aster vs. TigerGraph vs. TinkerGraph

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  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 instancePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwww.tigergraph.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmldocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Teradata
Initial release20231984200520172009
Current release1.0, March 20237.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxHP Open VMSLinuxLinux
Data schemescheme-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeyesschema-free
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.nonoyes infoin Aster File Storenono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesSQL-like query language (GSQL)no
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop 3
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#
C++
Java
Python
R
C++
Java
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaR packagesyesno
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-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 methodsnonoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsyes, on a single nodeACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlno

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