DBMS > Dgraph vs. H2 vs. KairosDB vs. Transbase vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. H2 vs. KairosDB vs. Transbase vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

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

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.h2database.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

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

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

kairosdb.github.io

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

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Thomas Mueller

Transaction Software GmbH

Transwarp

Initial release

2016

2005

2013

1987

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

commercial

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 and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

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

Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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