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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Elasticsearch vs. JSqlDb vs. ObjectBox vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Elasticsearch vs. JSqlDb vs. ObjectBox vs. Splice Machine

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  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 metricJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelGraph DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Object oriented DBMSRelational DBMS
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
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitedgraph.iowww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchjsqldb.org (offline)objectbox.iosplicemachine.com
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docswww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.objectbox.iosplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.ElasticKonrad von BackstromObjectBox LimitedSplice Machine
Initial release20162010201820172014
Current release8.6, January 20230.8, December 20183.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoElastic LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenonoyes
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary native APIJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesfunctions in JavaScriptnoyes infoJava
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingnonenoneShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via Raftyesnoneonline/offline synchronization between client and serverMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop ConnectornonoYes, via Full Spark Integration
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, allImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing RocksDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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DgraphElasticsearchJSqlDbObjectBoxSplice Machine
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