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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Graphite vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenTSDB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitedgraph.iogithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantopentsdb.nettinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iocloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Chris DavisIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20162006201020112009
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoPythonErlangJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlynonumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Telnet API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesnoneShardingSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBasenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyes infoOptimistic lockingyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenono

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