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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Dgraph vs. EventStoreDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Graph DBMS

Event Store

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Score	0.13
Rank	#342	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#158	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Website

bigobject.io

dgraph.io

www.eventstore.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

dgraph.io/docs

developers.eventstore.com

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Event Store Limited

Initial release

2015

2016

2012

Current release

21.2, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

Supported programming languages

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication via Raft

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

Planned for future releases

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