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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. LokiJS vs. Pinecone vs. SQream DB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA managed, cloud-native vector databasea GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelGraph DBMSDocument storeVector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitedgraph.iogithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.pinecone.iosqream.com
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Pinecone Systems, IncSQream Technologies
Initial release2016201420192017
Current release2022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageGoJavaScriptC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoString, Number, Booleanyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptPythonC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesnonehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via Raftnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
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
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesno

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