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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.gigaspaces.com

www.h2database.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Gigaspaces Technologies

Thomas Mueller

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

2000

2005

1987

Current release

15.5, September 2020

2.2.220, July 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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