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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. OrientDB vs. SQL.JS vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. OrientDB vs. SQL.JS vs. YugabyteDB

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Port of SQLite to JavaScriptHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score2.91
Rank#102  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
orientdb.orgsql.js.orgwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmldocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersYugabyte Inc.
Initial release2023201020122017
Current release1.0, March 20233.2.29, March 20242.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaScriptC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Data schemescheme-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language, no joinsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolTinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JavaScript APIJDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
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#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaJava, Javascriptnoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityHooksnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationnoneBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationship in graphsyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurablenoyes
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DragonflyOrientDBSQL.JSYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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