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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. EJDB vs. FileMaker vs. Newts vs. Spark SQL

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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)

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

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Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.claris.com/filemaker

opennms.github.io/newts

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

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

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Softmotions

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

OpenNMS Group

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2012

1983

2014

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

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

in-process shared library

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

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

PHP

Java

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

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