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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Lovefield vs. ObjectBox vs. Solr vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

google.github.io/lovefield

objectbox.io

solr.apache.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.objectbox.io

solr.apache.org/resources.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Google

ObjectBox Limited

Apache Software Foundation

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

2014

2017

2006

1987

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

9.6.0, April 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Proprietary native API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java plugins

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

none

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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