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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. FileMaker vs. Google BigQuery vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesSpatial extension of PostgreSQLAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score58.10
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitedgraph.iowww.claris.com/­filemakercloud.google.com/­bigquerypostgis.netswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationcloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docspostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Claris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogleSimer Plaha
Initial release20161983201020052018
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoCScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
PHP.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functions infoin JavaScriptuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesnonenoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying dataACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasessimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)yes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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