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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Document store

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Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

dgraph.io

pouchdb.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

pouchdb.com/guides

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

informationpartners gmbh

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2012

2015

2019

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

1.0

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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