DBMS > Dgraph vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Ingres vs. Kinetica vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Ingres vs. Kinetica vs. MySQL

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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

Well established RDBMS

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.kinetica.com

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

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

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.kinetica.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

FairCom Corporation

Actian Corporation

Kinetica

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2016

1979

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2012

1995

Current release

V3, October 2020

11.2, May 2022

7.1, August 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

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

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Ingres Replicator

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

MVCC

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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