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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Dgraph vs. GBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

cachelot.io

dgraph.io

www.gbase.cn

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

IBM

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2015

2016

2004

2017

2018

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, Java, Python

C and C++

Scala

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

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

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

Active-active shard replication

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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