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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. GraphDB vs. IRONdb vs. TerminusDB vs. TypeDB

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceEnterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score3.32
Rank#91  Overall
#6  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.ontotext.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/terminusdb.comtypedb.com
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsgraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#typedb.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsOntotextCirconus LLC.DataChemist Ltd.Vaticle
Initial release20232000201720182016
Current release1.0, March 202310.4, October 2023V0.10.20, January 201811.0.0, January 20232.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC and C++Prolog, RustJava
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnostored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolGeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScript
Python
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuawell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilityyes, in Luayesno
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeGraph PartitioningSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareJournaling StreamsMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoConstraint checkingnoyesno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationDefault Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.noRole-based access controlyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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DragonflyGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMIRONdbTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
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