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

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

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

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

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series 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

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

Score	1.39
Rank	#155	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.56
Rank	#241	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#315	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1286.59
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	7.56
Rank	#49	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.graphengine.io

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

www.oracle.com/database

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

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

docs.oracle.com/en/database

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Microsoft

IBM

Oracle

Initial release

2016

2010

2017

1980

2015

Current release

2.0

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

.NET

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

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

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

Import of XML data possible

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

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Active-active shard replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

by Federation

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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