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DBMS > Dgraph vs. HarperDB vs. Kinetica vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. HarperDB vs. Kinetica vs. XTDB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelGraph DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitedgraph.iowww.harperdb.iowww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsdocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.kinetica.comwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.HarperDBKineticaJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2016201720122019
Current release3.1, August 20217.1, August 20211.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoNode.jsC, C++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemayesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoJSON data typesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like data manipulation statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statementslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1user defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via Raftyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedSource-replica replicationyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and roles on table level

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