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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Ingres vs. Realm vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Well established RDBMS

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	1.48
Rank	#158	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	4.67
Rank	#77	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.15
Rank	#337	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

realm.io

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

docs.actian.com/ingres

realm.io/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Actian Corporation

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2014

1987

Current release

11.2, May 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

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)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Ingres Replicator

none

Source-replica replication

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

yes

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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