DBMS > Dgraph vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. StarRocks vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. StarRocks vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Spatial extension of H2

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	0.93
Rank	#198	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

dgraph.io

www.h2gis.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.starrocks.io

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

CNRS

Microsoft

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2013

2012

2020

2019

Current release

3.3, June 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
MySQL protocol

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

Java

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

Java

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

based on H2

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

yes

based on H2

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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