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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. FatDB vs. H2 vs. Kingbase vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.h2database.com

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

FatCloud

Thomas Mueller

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2016

2012

2005

1999

2008

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

V8.0, August 2021

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

Supported programming languages

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

Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

selectable replication factor

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

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

Can implement custom security layer via applications

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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