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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. Rockset vs. TiDB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelGraph DBMSDocument storeDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
Document store
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
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitedgraph.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSrockset.compingcap.com
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanttechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.rockset.comdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014RocksetPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release20162010201420192016
Current release8.0.0, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageGoErlangJavaScriptC++Go, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonodynamic typingyes
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.nononono infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJavaScript APIHTTP RESTGORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingnoneAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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DgraphIBM CloudantLokiJSRocksetTiDB
Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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