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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. HugeGraph vs. YDB vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

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

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#278	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#127	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

dgraph.io

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

ydb.tech/en/docs

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Esgyn

Baidu

Yandex

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2016

2015

2018

2019

2001

Current release

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

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
macOS
Unix

Linux

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Groovy
Java
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

yes

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

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

Active-passive shard replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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