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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. GBase vs. JSqlDb vs. NuoDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.gbase.cn

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

doc.nuodb.com

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Konrad von Backstrom

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2016

2004

2018

2013

1998

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

0.8, December 2018

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

functions in JavaScript

Java, SQL

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

yes

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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