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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Elasticsearch vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. LokiJS vs. NuoDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Elasticsearch vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. LokiJS vs. NuoDB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 metricA distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache KylinIn-memory JavaScript DBMSNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelGraph DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.46
Rank#266  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitedgraph.iowww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchkyligence.io/­kyligence-enterprisegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docswww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.ElasticKyligence, Inc.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release20162010201620142013
Current release8.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 indexedyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)noyes
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesView functions in JavaScriptJava, SQL
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingnonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via Raftyesnoneyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectoryesyesno
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 ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationnoyesyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesnoStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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