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DBMS > Dgraph vs. EDB Postgres vs. GBase vs. IRONdb

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. EDB Postgres vs. GBase vs. IRONdb

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Websitedgraph.iowww.enterprisedb.comwww.gbase.cnwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docswww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.EnterpriseDBGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Circonus LLC.
Initial release2016200520042017
Current release14, December 2021GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cV0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoCC, Java, PythonC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined functionsyes, in Lua
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replicationyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesno

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