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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Realm vs. ToroDB vs. Trafodion vs. VelocityDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

realm.io

github.com/torodb/server

trafodion.apache.org

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

realm.io/docs

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

8Kdata

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2016

2014

2016

2014

2011

Current release

2.3.0, February 2019

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

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

Source-replica replication

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

yes

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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