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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. SpatiaLite vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Spatial extension of SQLite

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

dgraph.io

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

InterSystems

Alessandro Furieri

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2018

2008

2019

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

server-less

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Source-replica replication

none

yes, each node contains all data

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

yes

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