DBMS > Dgraph vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Ingres vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Ingres vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Well established RDBMS

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

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

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

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

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

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

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

IBM

Actian Corporation

InterSystems

SAP

Initial release

2016

2017

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2018

2010

Current release

2.0

11.2, May 2022

2023.3, June 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

yes

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

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

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Active-active shard replication

Ingres Replicator

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

MVCC

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 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

yes

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