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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Graphite vs. Kingbase vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Graphite vs. Kingbase vs. TerminusDB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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 WhisperAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitedgraph.iogithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.kingbase.com.cnterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.ioterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Chris DavisBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2016200619992018
Current releaseV8.0, August 202111.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoPythonC and JavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftnoneyesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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