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DBMS > Dgraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TigerGraph vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TigerGraph vs. YottaDB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelGraph DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitedgraph.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.tigergraph.comyottadb.com
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.tigergraph.comyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014YottaDB, LLC
Initial release2016201020172001
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoErlangC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxDocker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
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
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (GSQL)by using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++
Java
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole-based access controlUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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