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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Dolt vs. Ingres vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

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

Well established RDBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	1.48
Rank	#158	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.95
Rank	#197	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	4.67
Rank	#77	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#337	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

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

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

docs.dolthub.com

docs.actian.com/ingres

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

DoltHub Inc

Actian Corporation

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

2018

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1987

Current release

11.2, May 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

CLI Client
HTTP REST

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

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

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

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.

Ingres Replicator

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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.

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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