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DBMS > Dgraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle Coherence

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSOracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelGraph DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
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
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitedgraph.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.kinetica.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014KineticaOracle
Initial release20162010201220142007
Current release7.1, August 202114.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoErlangC, C++JavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnoneyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infooptionally
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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