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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. EJDB vs. Lovefield vs. OrigoDB vs. Quasardb

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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)

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

google.github.io/lovefield

origodb.com

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

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

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

origodb.com/docs

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Softmotions

Google

Robert Friberg et al

quasardb

Initial release

2016

2012

2014

2009

under the name LiveDB

2009

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
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

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

integer and binary

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

in-process shared library

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

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

JavaScript

.Net

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

none

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

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

depending on model

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

Write ahead log

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

Role based authorization

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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