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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

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Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

dgraph.io

galaxybase.com

boilerbay.com

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

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

Boiler Bay Inc.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2016

2017

2002

2009

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

4.0

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
Python

Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

none

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

Role-based access control

yes, using Riak Security

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