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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Heroic vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Heroic vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb vs. SWC-DB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitedgraph.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicprometheus.ioquasar.aigithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicprometheus.io/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.SpotifyquasardbAlex Kashirin
Initial release20162014201520092020
Current release3.14.1, January 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaGoC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyes infointeger and binary
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.nonono infoImport of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APIProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via Raftyesyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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