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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. WakandaDB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitedgraph.iowww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsdocs.kinetica.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.KineticaOracleWakanda SAS
Initial release20162012201420112012
Current release7.1, August 202123.3, December 20232.7.0 (AprilĀ 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC, C++JavaScriptJavaC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnooptionalyes
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 viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftSource-replica replicationnoneElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featurenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyeswith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID
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.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyes infooff heap cacheno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoAccess rights for users and rolesyes

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