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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. FatDB vs. H2 vs. MonetDB

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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.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.h2database.com

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

FatCloud

Thomas Mueller

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2016

2012

2005

2004

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

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

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

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

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Java

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

none

Sharding via remote tables

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

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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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