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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Dolt vs. Graph Engine vs. OrientDB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonDolt  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#191  Overall
#89  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Websitedgraph.iogithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
www.graphengine.ioorientdb.org
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsdocs.dolthub.comwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.DoltHub IncMicrosoftOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release2016201820102010
Current release3.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoGo.NET and CJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
.NETAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
CLI Client
HTTP REST
RESTful HTTP APITinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
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
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infocurrently in alpha releaseyesJava, Javascript
TriggersnoyesnoHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesnonehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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