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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Riak KV vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Riak KV vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TerminusDB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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, fault tolerant key-value storeLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelGraph DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitedgraph.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Google infoacquired by Google 2014OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSybase, SAPDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20162012200919932018
Current release3.2.0, December 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoErlangProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesSQL-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
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
OWL
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 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
Delphi
Perl
PHP
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'Erlangyesyes
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesSharding infono "single point of failure"noneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via Raftselectable replication factorMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storedyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes, using Riak Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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