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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graph Engine vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graph Engine vs. TerminusDB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelGraph DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitedgraph.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.graphengine.ioterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Google infoacquired by Google 2014MicrosoftDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2016201220102018
Current release11.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageGo.NET and CProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted.NETLinux
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'yesyes
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyeshorizontal partitioningGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole-based access control

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