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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph

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Trend Chart

Score	1.54
Rank	#143	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#153	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#119	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#23	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	1262.82
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

docs.heavy.ai

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

InterSystems

Oracle

Initial release

2016

2018

1980

Current release

5.10, January 2022

2021.1, June 2021

19c, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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