DBMS > Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

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

A multi-model DBMS and application server

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

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

dgraph.io

www.esgyn.cn

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

rocksdb.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

docs.intersystems.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Esgyn

InterSystems

Facebook, Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2016

2015

1997

2013

2016

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C#
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

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

Source-replica replication

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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