DBMS > Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. Interbase vs. LokiJS vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. Interbase vs. LokiJS vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.esgyn.cn

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Esgyn

Embarcadero

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2015

1984

2014

2013

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

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

JavaScript API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Interbase Change Views

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

simple password-based access control

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