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Name

Description

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

dgraph.io/docs

docs.objectbox.io

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2005

2016

2017

2006

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

yes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication via Raft

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Planned for future releases

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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