DBMS > Dgraph vs. Ingres vs. JSqlDb vs. PieCloudDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Ingres vs. JSqlDb vs. PieCloudDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Well established RDBMS

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.openpie.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Actian Corporation

Konrad von Backstrom

OpenPie

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2018

2014

Current release

11.2, May 2022

0.8, December 2018

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

APIs and other access methods

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

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Ingres Replicator

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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