DBMS > Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. HyperSQL vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. HyperSQL vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB

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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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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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	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Esgyn

Facebook, Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2016

2015

2001

2013

2018

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

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

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

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

C++ API
Java API

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

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

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

yes

none

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

yes

Atomic execution of operations

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

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