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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. HyperSQL vs. NuoDB vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

dgraph.io

www.esgyn.cn

hsqldb.org

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Esgyn

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2016

2015

2001

2013

2020

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

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

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

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

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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