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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Dgraph vs. jBASE vs. PlanetScale

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Graph DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#155	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

dgraph.io

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

planetscale.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

dgraph.io/docs

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

planetscale.com/docs

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

PlanetScale

Initial release

2015

2016

1991

2020

Current release

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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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

AIX
Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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