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DBMS > Dgraph vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TerminusDB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSIn-memory JavaScript DBMSWidely used in-process key-value storeOracles in-memory data grid solutionScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelGraph DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Key-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitedgraph.iogithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherenceterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherenceterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Oracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleOracleDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20162014199420072018
Current release18.1.40, May 202014.1, August 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaScriptC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)JavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesyes
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.nonoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JavaScript APIJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptnonoyes
Triggersnoyesyes infoonly for the SQL APIyes infoLive Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesnonenoneShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftnoneSource-replica replicationyes, with selectable consistency levelJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes infooptionallyyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesnonoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationRole-based access control

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