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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Well established RDBMS

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

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Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.memcached.org

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

docs.actian.com/ingres

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Actian Corporation

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2016

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2003

2014

Current release

11.2, May 2022

1.6.27, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

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)

Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Ingres Replicator

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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