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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Postgres-XL vs. RDFox vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Postgres-XL vs. RDFox vs. Transbase

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitedgraph.iowww.postgres-xl.orgwww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.techwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Oxford Semantic TechnologiesTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20162014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20171987
Current release10 R1, October 20186.0, Septermber 2022Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licensecommercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoCC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoyes
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyeshorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via Raftreplication via a shared file systemSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoMVCCACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRoles, resources, and access typesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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