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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Graphite vs. OpenTSDB vs. searchxml vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Graphite vs. OpenTSDB vs. searchxml vs. TinkerGraph

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  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 WhisperScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Graph 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
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitedgraph.iogithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webopentsdb.netwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productstinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.ioopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Chris Daviscurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20162006201120152009
Current release1.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoPythonJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlynumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP API
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsGroovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesnoneSharding infobased on HBasenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via Raftnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonomultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesno
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 releasesnonoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno

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