DBMS > Dgraph vs. Heroic vs. MySQL vs. NuoDB vs. PieCloudDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Heroic vs. MySQL vs. NuoDB vs. PieCloudDB

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Widely used open source RDBMS

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.mysql.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.openpie.com

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

dev.mysql.com/doc

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Spotify

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

OpenPie

Initial release

2016

2014

1995

2013

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Java, SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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