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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Dolt vs. FileMaker vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

docs.dolthub.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

DoltHub Inc

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

8Kdata

Initial release

2016

2018

1983

2016

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

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

CLI Client
HTTP REST

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Access rights for users and roles

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