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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Riak TS vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

dgraph.io

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2016

2015

2001

Current release

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

selectable replication factor

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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