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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. HEAVY.AI vs. HugeGraph vs. Lovefield

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelGraph DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Websitedgraph.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
google.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.heavy.aihugegraph.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Google infoacquired by Google 2014HEAVY.AI, Inc.BaiduGoogle
Initial release20162012201620182014
Current release5.10, January 20220.92.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoC++ and CUDAJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Unix
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'noasynchronous Gremlin script jobsno
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonoUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesSharding infoRound robinyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replicationyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononovia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoedges in graphyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, 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.yesyesyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsno

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