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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Interbase vs. LokiJS

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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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

dgraph.io

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

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

docs.heavy.ai

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Embarcadero

Initial release

2016

1984

2014

Current release

5.10, January 2022

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

Round robin

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication

Interbase Change Views

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

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