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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Firebird vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Firebird vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle Coherence

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSOracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitedgraph.iowww.firebirdsql.orgwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.kinetica.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Firebird FoundationKineticaOracle
Initial release20162000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201220142007
Current release5.0.0, January 20247.1, August 202114.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC and C++C, C++JavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnoneyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infooptionally
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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