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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Elasticsearch vs. EsgynDB vs. Kinetica vs. NuoDB

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.48
Rank	#158	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	134.78
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.23
Rank	#319	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.99
Rank	#195	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.esgyn.cn

www.kinetica.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

docs.kinetica.com

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Elastic

Esgyn

Kinetica

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2010

2015

2012

2013

Current release

8.6, January 2023

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

limited edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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