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DBMS > Dgraph vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. JanusGraph vs. Lovefield vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. JanusGraph vs. Lovefield vs. Riak KV

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelGraph DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
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Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitedgraph.iowww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisjanusgraph.orggoogle.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.janusgraph.orggithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.InterSystemsLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusGoogleOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20162018201720142009
Current release2023.3, June 20230.6.3, February 20232.1.12, February 20173.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaScriptErlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternno
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
JavaScriptC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesnoErlang
TriggersnoyesyesUsing read-only observersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)noneSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftSource-replica replicationyesnoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyesno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesyesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Servernoyes, using Riak Security
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