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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. FatDB vs. FileMaker vs. PostGIS

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.esgyn.cn

www.claris.com/filemaker

postgis.net

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Esgyn

FatCloud

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Initial release

2016

2015

2012

1983

2005

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

via applications

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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