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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. H2GIS vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Spatial extension of H2

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.h2gis.org

www.monetdb.org

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

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

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

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

CNRS

MonetDB BV

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2016

2013

2004

1984

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

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 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Java

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

based on H2

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

yes, on a single node

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

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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