DBMS > Dgraph vs. searchxml vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. searchxml vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Spatial extension of SQLite

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

sql.js.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Alessandro Furieri

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2016

2015

2008

2012

2000

Current release

1.0

5.0.0, August 2020

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

server-less

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

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

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

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