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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. LokiJS vs. Trafodion vs. Yanza

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

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

Website

dgraph.io

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

trafodion.apache.org

yanza.com

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Esgyn

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Yanza

Initial release

2016

2015

2014

2015

Current release

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C++, Java

JavaScript

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

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

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

via views

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

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

yes, via HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate 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

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 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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