DBMS > Dgraph vs. Galaxybase vs. Graph Engine vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Oracle

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Galaxybase vs. Graph Engine vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

galaxybase.com

www.graphengine.io

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Microsoft

IBM

Oracle

Initial release

2016

2017

2010

2017

1980

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

2.0

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

.NET and C

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

.NET

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
Python

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Active-active shard replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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