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DBMS > Dgraph vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Postgres-XL vs. SQL.JS vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Postgres-XL vs. SQL.JS vs. YottaDB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  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 scalabilityBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresPort of SQLite to JavaScriptA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelGraph DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
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
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#317  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Websitedgraph.iowww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.postgres-xl.orgsql.js.orgyottadb.com
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.InterSystemsAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersYottaDB, LLC
Initial release201620182014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20122001
Current release2023.3, June 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCJavaScriptC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Docker
Linux
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.noyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JavaScript APIPostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScriptC
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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 dataACIDACIDACID infoMVCCACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms
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DgraphInterSystems IRISPostgres-XLSQL.JSYottaDB
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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