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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Dragonfly vs. Ingres vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. mSQL

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  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 instanceWell established RDBMSA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilitymSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
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
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Websitedgraph.iogithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irishughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docswww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.cls
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.DragonflyDB team and community contributorsActian CorporationInterSystemsHughes Technologies
Initial release201620231974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20181994
Current release1.0, March 202311.2, May 20222023.3, June 20234.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1commercialcommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++CC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeyesdepending on used data modelyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protocol.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
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
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuayesyesno
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftSource-replica replicationIngres ReplicatorSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes infoMVCCyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesPassword-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesno
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