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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. InfinityDB vs. Ingres vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Well established RDBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

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Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

dgraph.io

boilerbay.com

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Boiler Bay Inc.

Actian Corporation

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2016

2002

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2003

Current release

4.0

11.2, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

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

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

none

Ingres Replicator

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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