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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. LokiJS vs. TerminusDB vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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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	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#371	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

terminusdb.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Esgyn

DataChemist Ltd.

Transwarp

Initial release

2016

2015

2014

2018

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

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

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

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

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 (WOQL)

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

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

JavaScript

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

none

Graph Partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

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

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

yes

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