DBMS > Dgraph vs. GraphDB vs. LokiJS vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. GraphDB vs. LokiJS vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Enterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	3.32
Rank	#91	Overall
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#4	RDF stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

dgraph.io

www.ontotext.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

graphdb.ontotext.com/documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Social network pages

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Ontotext

Amazon Web Services

Oracle

Initial release

2016

2000

2014

2021

2007

Current release

10.4, October 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Some plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourced

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

yes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexes

yes

via views

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

stored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBC

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1

JavaScript API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

well-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibility

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication

none

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)

none

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Constraint checking

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

configurable

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

optionally

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

Default Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

Ontotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

GraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

Metadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Key customers

GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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Market metrics

GraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

GraphDB Free is a non-commercial version and is free to use. GraphDB Enterprise edition...
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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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