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DBMS > Dgraph vs. GBase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SurrealDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. GBase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SurrealDB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitedgraph.iowww.gbase.cngithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
surrealdb.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsdocs.heavy.aisurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.General Data Technology Co., Ltd.HEAVY.AI, Inc.SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20162004201620222009
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c5.10, January 2022v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC, Java, PythonC++ and CUDARustJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infoRound robinnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftyesMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesno

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