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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. LokiJS vs. OpenEdge

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Google

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2016

2017

2014

1984

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

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

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

JavaScript

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Users and groups

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