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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Graphite vs. SQL.JS vs. Transbase

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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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

sql.js.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Chris Davis

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

2006

2012

1987

Current release

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
Sockets

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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