DBMS > Dgraph vs. EJDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Newts vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. EJDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Newts vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

dgraph.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.esgyn.cn

opennms.github.io/newts

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Softmotions

Esgyn

OpenNMS Group

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2015

2014

2013

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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