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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. H2GIS vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Spatial extension of H2

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#315	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Esgyn

CNRS

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2016

2015

2013

2004

Current release

2.1, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Java

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

based on H2

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on H2

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