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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Realm vs. Riak KV vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Realm vs. Riak KV vs. SWC-DB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitedgraph.iorealm.iogithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsrealm.io/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesAlex Kashirin
Initial release2016201420092020
Current release3.2.0, December 20220.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoErlangC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryErlangno
Triggersnoyes infoChange Listenersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via Raftnoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
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.yes infoIn-Memory realmno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesyesyes, using Riak Security

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