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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. H2GIS vs. JanusGraph vs. NuoDB

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

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

Spatial extension of H2

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.48
Rank	#158	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#319	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#372	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#135	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.99
Rank	#195	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.janusgraph.org

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Esgyn

CNRS

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2015

2013

2017

2013

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Java

Clojure
Java
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

none

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

based on H2

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

MVCC

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on H2

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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