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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. GBase vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. LeanXcale vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

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

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#340	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#50	Key-value stores

Website

dgraph.io

www.gbase.cn

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.leanxcale.com

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Google

LeanXcale

Yandex

Initial release

2016

2004

2015

2023

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Ubuntu

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

through Apache Derby

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Supported programming languages

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

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

C
Java
Scala

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

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

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access Control Lists

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