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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Splunk vs. SwayDB vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Simer Plaha

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2016

2003

2018

2001

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP REST

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Atomic execution of operations

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

Access rights for users and roles

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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