DBMS > Dgraph vs. EJDB vs. EsgynDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. EJDB vs. EsgynDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.48
Rank	#158	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.30
Rank	#294	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#319	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	4.39
Rank	#81	Overall
	#13	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#351	Overall
	#47	Document stores

Website

dgraph.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.esgyn.cn

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Softmotions

Esgyn

InterSystems

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2012

2015

2018

2019

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

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

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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