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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Document store

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Score	1.48
Rank	#158	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#351	Overall
	#47	Document stores

Website

dgraph.io

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2019

Current release

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

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, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

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Dgraph on AWS: Setting up a horizontally scalable graph database | Amazon Web Services
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