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Name

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Website

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

dgraph.io/docs

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

hbase.apache.org/book.html

Developer

Mobiland AG

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

CCRi and others

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Initial release

2018

2016

2014

2008

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

5.0.0, May 2024

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

schema-free

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

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

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

yes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

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.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

Planned for future releases

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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