DBMS > Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Event Store

Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS

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

Score	1.48
Rank	#158	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#319	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	3.58
Rank	#92	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	0.91
Rank	#204	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.esgyn.cn

www.eventstore.com

cloud.google.com/bigtable

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

developers.eventstore.com

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Esgyn

Event Store Limited

Google

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2016

2015

2012

2015

2022

Current release

21.2, February 2021

v1.1.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

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

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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