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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Heroic vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Kinetica vs. NuoDB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitedgraph.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.kinetica.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.kinetica.comdoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.SpotifyInterSystemsKineticaDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release20162014201820122013
Current release2023.3, June 20237.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC, C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linuxhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freedepending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesuser defined functionsJava, SQL
Triggersnonoyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingShardingShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftyesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesyesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users
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