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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. PouchDB vs. RisingWave

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. PouchDB vs. RisingWave

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  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 instanceJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.48
Rank#247  Overall
#37  Key-value stores
Score1.87
Rank#120  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.58
Rank#234  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
pouchdb.comwww.risingwave.com/­database
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docspouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsApache Software FoundationRisingWave Labs
Initial release202320122022
Current release1.0, March 20237.1.1, June 20191.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptRust
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemescheme-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysnoStandard SQL-types and JSON
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
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
JavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaView functions in JavaScriptUDFs in Python or Java
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationnoUsers and Roles

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