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DBMS > Dgraph vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. ObjectBox vs. Postgres-XL vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. ObjectBox vs. Postgres-XL vs. TerminusDB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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 scalabilityExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelGraph DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Object oriented DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitedgraph.iowww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisobjectbox.iowww.postgres-xl.orgterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.objectbox.iowww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.InterSystemsObjectBox LimitedDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2016201820172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2018
Current release2023.3, June 202310 R1, October 201811.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++CProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnouser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingnonehorizontal partitioningGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftSource-replica replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and serverJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesyesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control
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