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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. PostGIS vs. SingleStore vs. SpaceTime vs. SpatiaLite

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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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

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

postgis.net

www.singlestore.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

postgis.net/documentation

docs.singlestore.com

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

SingleStore Inc.

Mireo

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2023

2005

2013

2020

2008

Current release

1.0, March 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

8.5, January 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

64 bit version required

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

scheme-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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

RESTful HTTP 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

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

hash partitioning

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

yes

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