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DBMS > Dgraph vs. FatDB vs. PostGIS vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. FatDB vs. PostGIS vs. Transbase

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitedgraph.iopostgis.netwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docspostgis.net/­documentationwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.FatCloudTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2016201220051987
Current release3.4.2, February 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC#CC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
WindowsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnono infoVia inetgration in SQL Serveryesyes
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
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infovia applicationsuser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyes infovia applicationsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via Raftselectable replication factoryes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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