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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Ignite vs. OrientDB vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

RDF store

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Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

dgraph.io

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

ignite.apache.org

orientdb.org

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

IBM

Apache Software Foundation

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2016

2017

2015

2010

2004

Current release

2.0

Apache Ignite 2.6

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, Java, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Java, Javascript

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Active-active shard replication

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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