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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. GridGain vs. H2 vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PouchDB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelGraph DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitedgraph.iowww.gridgain.comwww.h2database.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlpouchdb.com
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.GridGain Systems, Inc.Thomas MuellerOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20162007200519842012
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.12.2.220, July 20237.4.1.1, 20217.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJava, C++, .NetJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMHP Open VMSserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via Raftyes (replicated cache)With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDyes, on a single nodeno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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