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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. GridGain vs. OpenTenBase 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

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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	0.08
Rank	#370	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

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/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

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

postgis.net

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

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

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

GridGain Systems, Inc.

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2016

2007

1984

2005

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

2.5, January 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

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

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

user defined functions

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes (replicated cache)

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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