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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Drizzle vs. Hyprcubd vs. NuoDB vs. PostGIS

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Serverless Time Series DBMS

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

postgis.net

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

doc.nuodb.com

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2008

2013

2005

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC

gRPC (https)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

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.

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

token access

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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