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DBMS > Dgraph vs. HBase vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. HBase vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache KylinIn-memory JavaScript DBMSWidely used in-process key-value store
Primary database modelGraph DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.40
Rank#269  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Websitedgraph.iohbase.apache.orgkyligence.io/­kyligence-enterprisegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetKyligence, Inc.Oracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle
Initial release20162008201620141994
Current release2.3.4, January 202118.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infocommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaJavaScriptC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesnono
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)noyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is available
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaScript.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in JavaView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesyesyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)no infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnono

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