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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Dgraph vs. OushuDB vs. ToroDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#355	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

dgraph.io

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

github.com/torodb/server

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

dgraph.io/docs

www.oushu.com/documentation

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Oushu

8Kdata

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2014

2016

2011

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

4.0.1, August 2020

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

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

JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

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

C
C++

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication via Raft

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Planned for future releases

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

Access rights for users and roles

Based on Windows Authentication

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