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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. Heroic vs. Ignite vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

dgraph.io

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/spotify/heroic

ignite.apache.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Esgyn

Spotify

Apache Software Foundation

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2016

2015

2014

2015

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

yes (replicated cache)

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

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

multiple readers, single writer

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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