DBMS > Dgraph vs. FileMaker vs. Google BigQuery vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. FileMaker vs. Google BigQuery vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

dgraph.io

www.claris.com/filemaker

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Google

Initial release

2016

1983

2010

2014

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

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

PHP

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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