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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. EJDB vs. GBase vs. Newts vs. openGemini

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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)

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

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	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#375	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.gbase.cn

opennms.github.io/newts

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

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

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.opengemini.org/guide

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Softmotions

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

OpenNMS Group

Huawei and openGemini community

Initial release

2016

2012

2004

2014

2022

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

1.1, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

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

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP REST

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

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

none

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

yes

Administrators and common users accounts

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