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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

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Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Esgyn

Oracle

Initial release

2016

2015

2014

2007

2017

Current release

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

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

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

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

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

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 views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

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

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

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
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Role-based access control

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