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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

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Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

hbase.apache.org

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

hbase.apache.org/book.html

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Chris Davis

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Initial release

2016

2006

2008

2017

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
Sockets

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

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

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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 Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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