DBMS > Dgraph vs. Elasticsearch vs. JSqlDb vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Elasticsearch vs. JSqlDb vs. Riak TS

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.48
Rank	#158	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	134.78
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.25
Rank	#308	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

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

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Elastic

Konrad von Backstrom

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2016

2010

2018

2015

Current release

8.6, January 2023

0.8, December 2018

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

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

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

JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

functions in JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

none

selectable replication factor

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Memcached and Redis integration

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

PostgreSQL is the DBMS of the Year 2017
2 January 2018, Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann

Elasticsearch moved into the top 10 most popular database management systems
3 July 2017, Matthias Gelbmann

MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis are the winners of the March ranking
2 March 2016, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

Dgraph on AWS: Setting up a horizontally scalable graph database | Amazon Web Services
1 September 2020, AWS Blog

Dgraph Rises to the Top Graph Database on GitHub With 11 G2 Badges and 11M Downloads
26 May 2021, Business Wire

Dgraph raises $11.5 million for scalable graph database solutions
31 July 2019, VentureBeat

Dgraph GraphQL database users detail graph use cases
20 April 2021, TechTarget

provided by Google News

Elasticsearch Open Inference API Supports Cohere Rerank 3
11 April 2024, Business Wire

Introducing Elasticsearch Vector Database to Azure OpenAI Service On Your Data (Preview)
26 March 2024, insider.govtech.com

Elasticsearch Open Inference API Supports Cohere Rerank 3 | Business & Finance | heraldchronicle.com
11 April 2024, Winchester Herald Chronicle

ElasticSearch Goes Deep on OpenTelemetry with eBPF Donation
13 March 2024, The New Stack

12K Misconfigured Elasticsearch Buckets Ravaged by Extortionists
29 November 2023, Dark Reading

provided by Google News

What you missed in the Smart World: Amazon enters IoT space
12 October 2015, SiliconANGLE News

Best open source databases for IoT applications
26 May 2017, Open Source For You

provided by Google News

Share this page