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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Ingres vs. PostGIS vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Ingres vs. PostGIS vs. SQL.JS

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSWell established RDBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitedgraph.iowww.actian.com/­databases/­ingrespostgis.netsql.js.org
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsdocs.actian.com/­ingrespostgis.net/­documentationsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Actian CorporationAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20161974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20052012
Current release11.2, May 20223.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoCCJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftIngres Replicatoryes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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