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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. jBASE vs. RDF4J vs. SQL.JS

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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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

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Score	0.41
Rank	#266	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

rdf4j.org

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

rdf4j.org/documentation

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2023

1991

2004

2012

Current release

1.0, March 2023

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

scheme-free

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

optional

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JavaScript 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

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

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

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

except by serializing a db to a file

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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