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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  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 instanceSpatial extension of PostgreSQLAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelKey-value storeSpatial DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
postgis.netswaydb.simer.autinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docspostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsSimer Plaha
Initial release2023200520182009
Current release1.0, March 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++CScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Data schemescheme-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesnoyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolTinkerPop 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
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functionsnono
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDAtomic execution of operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationyes infobased on PostgreSQLnono

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