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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Firebolt vs. IBM Cloudant vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Firebolt vs. IBM Cloudant vs. VelocityDB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitedgraph.iowww.firebolt.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsdocs.firebolt.iocloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Firebolt Analytics Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014VelocityDB Inc
Initial release2016202020102011
Current release7.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoErlangC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedhostedAny that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API.Net
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
TriggersnonoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via Raftdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseBased on Windows Authentication

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