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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Graphite vs. PouchDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Graphite vs. PouchDB vs. RocksDB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  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 WhisperJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.39
Rank#155  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score5.19
Rank#62  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Websitedgraph.iogithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webpouchdb.comrocksdb.org
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iopouchdb.com/­guidesgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Chris DavisApache Software FoundationFacebook, Inc.
Initial release2016200620122013
Current release7.1.1, June 20199.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoPythonJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlynono
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesnonono

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