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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Drizzle vs. H2GIS vs. HarperDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Drizzle vs. H2GIS vs. HarperDB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Spatial extension of H2Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitedgraph.iowww.h2gis.orgwww.harperdb.iotinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.harperdb.io/­docs
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Drizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerCNRSHarperDB
Initial release20162008201320172009
Current release7.2.4, September 20123.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++JavaNode.jsJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesdynamic schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoJSON data typesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesSQL-like data manipulation statementsno
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PHP
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infobased on H2Custom Functions infosince release 3.1no
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingnoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on H2yes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definednone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, using LMDBoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyes infobased on H2Access rights for users and rolesno

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