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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. RDF4J vs. Rockset vs. SingleStore vs. VelocityDB

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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 instanceRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBMySQL 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 typeA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelKey-value storeRDF storeDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score5.38
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
rdf4j.orgrockset.comwww.singlestore.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.rockset.comdocs.singlestore.comvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.RocksetSingleStore Inc.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20232004201920132011
Current release1.0, March 20238.5, January 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++C++, GoC#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux info64 bit version requiredAny that supports .NET
Data schemescheme-freeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesdynamic typingyesyes
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.nono infoingestion from XML files supportednono
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
HTTP RESTCluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
.Net
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
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesnoyesno
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingSharding infohash partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyesSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usednoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes infoAll 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 infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesBased on Windows Authentication
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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