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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Riak KV

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  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.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelGraph DBMSDocument storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.39
Rank#155  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.18
Rank#315  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score3.84
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitedgraph.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-store
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storewww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Google infoacquired by Google 2014IBMOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2016201220172009
Current release2.03.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++Erlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesnorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeno
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'yesErlang
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftActive-active shard replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
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 rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak Security

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