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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Drizzle vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Drizzle vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Postgres-XL

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityOracles in-memory data grid solutionBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitedgraph.iowww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencewww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Drizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerInterSystemsOracle
Initial release20162008201820072014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release7.2.4, September 20122023.3, June 202314.1, August 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++JavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesnoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnouser defined functions
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyes infoLive Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDconfigurableACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyesauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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