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DBMS > Dgraph vs. jBASE vs. PouchDB vs. Stardog vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. jBASE vs. PouchDB vs. Stardog vs. Vitess

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelGraph DBMSMultivalue DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitedgraph.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasepouchdb.comwww.stardog.comvitess.io
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9pouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.stardog.comvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Apache Software FoundationStardog-UnionThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20161991201220102013
Current release5.77.1.1, June 20197.3.0, May 202015.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Sourcecommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaScriptJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalnoyesyes
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.noyesnono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serveryes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
JavaScript.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javayes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnoyesyesyes infovia event handlersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftyesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Multi-source replication in HA-ClusterMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes inforelationships in graphsyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnoAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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