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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Dgraph vs. searchxml vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.87
Rank	#200	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	1.39
Rank	#155	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.53
Rank	#246	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

dgraph.io

www.searchxml.net/category/products

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

dgraph.io/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Altibase

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

1999

2016

2015

2012

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

ANSI SQL-92

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Planned for future releases

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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