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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TypeDB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSOracles in-memory data grid solutionTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.53
Rank#164  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#229  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#259  Overall
#41  Document stores
Score2.32
Rank#126  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score1.01
Rank#202  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitedgraph.iowww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencetypedb.com
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsdocs.kinetica.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencetypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.KineticaOracleVaticle
Initial release20162012201420072016
Current release7.1, August 202114.1, August 20232.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC, C++JavaScriptJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonono
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript.Net
C++
Java
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingnoneShardingSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftSource-replica replicationnoneyes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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DgraphKineticaLokiJSOracle CoherenceTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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