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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Faircom DB vs. H2 vs. NuoDB vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.48
Rank	#158	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#311	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.99
Rank	#195	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#131	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

dgraph.io

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.h2database.com

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

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

doc.nuodb.com

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

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

FairCom Corporation

Thomas Mueller

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Oracle

Initial release

2016

1979

2005

2013

2007

Current release

V12, November 2020

2.2.220, July 2023

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

Java

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

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

none

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

tunable commit protocol

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

optionally

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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