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DBMS > Dgraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kinetica vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenEdge

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kinetica vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenEdge

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileApplication development environment with integrated database management system
Primary database modelGraph DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websitedgraph.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.kinetica.comobjectbox.iowww.progress.com/­openedge
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.kinetica.comdocs.objectbox.iodocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014KineticaObjectBox LimitedProgress Software Corporation
Initial release20162010201220171984
Current release7.1, August 2021OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoErlangC, C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infoclose to SQL 92
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APIJDBC
ODBC
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
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnoyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnono
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyesUsers and groups
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