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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. GridGain vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.gridgain.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

postgis.net

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2016

2007

2014

1984

2005

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes (replicated cache)

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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