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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. InfluxDB vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Trend Chart

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

dgraph.io

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2013

2009

2013

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

simple rights management via user accounts

yes, using Riak Security

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