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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

dgraph.io

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2016

2017

2013

Current release

6.0, Septermber 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

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

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

C
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication via Raft

replication via a shared file system

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes

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

Planned for future releases

Roles, resources, and access types

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