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DBMS > Dgraph vs. FatDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graphite

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. FatDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graphite

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper
Primary database modelGraph DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Document storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.48
Rank#158  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score15.00
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score4.75
Rank#75  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitedgraph.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-web
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegraphite.readthedocs.io
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.FatCloudGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Chris Davis
Initial release2016201220122006
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC#Python
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
WindowshostedLinux
Unix
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data only
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnono infoVia inetgration in SQL Servernono
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infovia applicationslimited functionality with using 'rules'no
Triggersnoyes infovia applicationsCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via Raftselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infolocking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsyes, based on authentication and database rulesno

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