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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Dragonfly vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Dragonfly vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. WakandaDB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  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 instanceFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelGraph DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitedgraph.iogithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.kinetica.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docswww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.kinetica.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.DragonflyDB team and community contributorsKineticaWakanda SAS
Initial release20162023201220142012
Current release1.0, March 20237.1, August 20212.7.0 (AprilĀ 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++C, C++JavaScriptC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesnoyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
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++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuauser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesPassword-based authenticationAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoyes

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