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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Postgres-XL vs. Snowflake vs. SQL.JS

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  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 instanceBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.44
Rank#255  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score133.72
Rank#7  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#246  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.postgres-xl.orgwww.snowflake.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsSnowflake Computing Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20232014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20142012
Current release1.0, March 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoMozilla public licensecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++CJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemescheme-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
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++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesnone
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 integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACID infoMVCCACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationno

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