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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. EventStoreDB vs. Graphite vs. SurrealDB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMSEvent StoreTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score1.19
Rank#173  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitedgraph.iowww.eventstore.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-websurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsdevelopers.eventstore.comgraphite.readthedocs.iosurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Event Store LimitedChris DavisSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2016201220062022
Current release21.2, February 2021v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoPythonRust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via Raftnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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