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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Sequoiadb vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.34
Rank	#157	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#369	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	13.43
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.39
Rank	#267	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#326	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.sequoiadb.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

FairCom Corporation

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Sequoiadb Ltd.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

1979

2012

2013

2018

Current release

V3, October 2020

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

limited functionality with using 'rules'

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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 user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

yes, based on authentication and database rules

simple password-based access control

Role-based access control

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