DBMS > Dgraph vs. Heroic vs. Quasardb vs. SWC-DB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Heroic vs. Quasardb vs. SWC-DB vs. Valentina Server

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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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

github.com/spotify/heroic

quasar.ai

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

doc.quasar.ai/master

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Spotify

quasardb

Alex Kashirin

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2016

2014

2009

2020

1999

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

0.5, April 2021

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

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

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

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

C++

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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