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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. NuoDB vs. Splunk vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Analytics Platform for Big Data

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.48
Rank	#158	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#319	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	0.99
Rank	#195	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	3.11
Rank	#99	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.esgyn.cn

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.splunk.com

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

doc.nuodb.com

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Esgyn

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2016

2015

2013

2003

2017

Current release

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Java, SQL

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Multi-source replication

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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