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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. JaguarDB vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle vs. OrientDB

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Name

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Widely used RDBMS

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Trend Chart

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Website

www.graphengine.io

www.jaguardb.com

www.monetdb.org

www.oracle.com/database

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Microsoft

DataJaguar, Inc.

MonetDB BV

Oracle

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2010

2015

2004

1980

2010

Current release

3.3 July 2023

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

23c, September 2023

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

.NET

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

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

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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