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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.

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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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	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

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

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Softmotions

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Mireo

Initial release

2016

2012

1983

2020

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

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

in-process shared library

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP 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

PHP

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

yes

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