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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Elasticsearch vs. Graphite vs. JSqlDb vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Elasticsearch vs. Graphite vs. JSqlDb vs. SWC-DB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitedgraph.iowww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webjsqldb.org (offline)github.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docswww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.io
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.ElasticChris DavisKonrad von BackstromAlex Kashirin
Initial release20162010200620182020
Current release8.6, January 20230.8, December 20180.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaPythonC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Sockets
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnofunctions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via Raftyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectornonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesno

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