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DBMS > Dgraph vs. InfluxDB vs. LevelDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. InfluxDB vs. LevelDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Postgres-XL

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.39
Rank#155  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score22.12
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score2.33
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Websitedgraph.iowww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­google/­leveldbgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mddocs.objectbox.iowww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.GoogleObjectBox Limited
Initial release20162013201120172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release2.7.6, April 20241.23, February 20214.0 (May 2024)10 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoBSDBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoGoC++C and C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsnoyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes
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.nonononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenonoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Proprietary native APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononouser defined functions
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesSharding infoin enterprise version onlynonenonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via Raftselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynoneData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage enginenono
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasessimple rights management via user accountsnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
DgraphInfluxDBLevelDBObjectBoxPostgres-XL
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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