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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. EJDB vs. HugeGraph vs. Lovefield vs. Pinecone

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Primary database model

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Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#95	Overall
	#2	Vector DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

google.github.io/lovefield

www.pinecone.io

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Softmotions

Baidu

Google

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Initial release

2016

2012

2018

2014

2019

Current release

0.9

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux
macOS
Unix

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

String, Number, Boolean

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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

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

in-process shared library

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java
Python

JavaScript

Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

Users, roles and permissions

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