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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Hive vs. LokiJS vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Hive vs. LokiJS vs. Quasardb

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopIn-memory JavaScript DBMSDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitedgraph.iohive.apache.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSquasar.ai
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Hometechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by Facebookquasardb
Initial release2016201220142009
Current release3.1.3, April 20223.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Sourcecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes 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
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
JavaScript APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingnoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via Raftselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyeswith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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