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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Drizzle vs. HugeGraph vs. JanusGraph vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Drizzle vs. HugeGraph vs. JanusGraph vs. Lovefield

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  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.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Websitedgraph.iogithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
janusgraph.orggoogle.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docshugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.janusgraph.orggithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Drizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerBaiduLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusGoogle
Initial release20162008201820172014
Current release7.2.4, September 20120.90.6.3, February 20232.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++JavaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Unix
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnonoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PHP
Groovy
Java
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsyesno
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyesUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonovia hugegraph-sparkyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoedges in graphyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPUsers, roles and permissionsUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverno

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