DBMS > Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. RDF4J vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. RDF4J vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

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

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

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	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.esgyn.cn

rdf4j.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Esgyn

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2016

2015

2004

1992

2023

Current release

17, July 2015

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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.

yes

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
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Java
PHP
Python

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

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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