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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Dragonfly vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. Lovefield

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelGraph DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Websitedgraph.iogithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
cloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgoogle.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docswww.dragonflydb.io/­docscloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iogithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.DragonflyDB team and community contributorsGoogleChris DavisGoogle
Initial release20162023201520062014
Current release1.0, March 20232.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoC++PythonJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
Unix
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysnoNumeric 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
Sockets
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanonono
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynonoUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftSource-replica replicationInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsAtomic single-row operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesPassword-based authenticationAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nono

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