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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Dolt vs. Graphite vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Dolt vs. Graphite vs. SurrealDB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonDolt  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
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
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitedgraph.iogithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
github.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-websurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsdocs.dolthub.comgraphite.readthedocs.iosurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.DoltHub IncChris DavisSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2016201820062022
Current releasev1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoGoPythonRust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
CLI Client
HTTP REST
HTTP API
Sockets
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
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
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infocurrently in alpha releaseno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesnonenone
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.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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