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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Ingres vs. IRONdb vs. ObjectBox vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Ingres vs. IRONdb vs. ObjectBox vs. Transbase

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSWell established RDBMSA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.48
Rank#158  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score4.67
Rank#77  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score1.22
Rank#172  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#337  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Websitedgraph.iowww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/objectbox.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.objectbox.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Actian CorporationCirconus LLC.ObjectBox LimitedTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20161974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201720171987
Current release11.2, May 2022V0.10.20, January 2018Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCC and C++C and C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP APIProprietary native APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes, in Luanoyes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftIngres Replicatorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareonline/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyesyes
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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