DBMS > Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. Heroic vs. MaxDB vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. Heroic vs. MaxDB vs. ObjectBox

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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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/spotify/heroic

maxdb.sap.com

objectbox.io

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Esgyn

Spotify

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2016

2015

2014

1984

2017

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

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

Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

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

yes

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