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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Well established RDBMS

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

docs.actian.com/ingres

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Actian Corporation

Microsoft

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2016

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2015

2008

Current release

11.2, May 2022

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

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

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Ingres Replicator

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

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