DBMS > Dgraph vs. LMDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. ReductStore

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. LMDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. ReductStore

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	2.09
Rank	#121	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#384	Overall
	#44	Time Series DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.lmdb.tech/doc

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.reduct.store/docs

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Symas

Microsoft

ReductStore LLC

Initial release

2016

2011

2014

2023

Current release

0.9.32, January 2024

1.9, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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