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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Graphite vs. NCache

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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

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

dgraph.io

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Chris Davis

Alachisoft

Initial release

2016

2006

2005

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
Sockets

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

none

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

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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