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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Dragonfly vs. GridGain vs. NuoDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Dragonfly vs. GridGain vs. NuoDB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  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 instanceGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelGraph DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational 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
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitedgraph.iogithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.gridgain.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docswww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.DragonflyDB team and community contributorsGridGain Systems, Inc.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release2016202320072013
Current release1.0, March 2023GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1commercialcommercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++Java, C++, .NetC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
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++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuayes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Java, SQL
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftSource-replica replicationyes (replicated cache)yes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesPassword-based authenticationSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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