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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. RisingWave

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NameDragonfly  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 instanceA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.48
Rank#247  Overall
#37  Key-value stores
Score0.58
Rank#234  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.risingwave.com/­database
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsRisingWave Labs
Initial release20232022
Current release1.0, March 20231.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono
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Implementation languageC++Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemescheme-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysStandard 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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBC
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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaUDFs in Python or Java
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityno
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationUsers and Roles

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