DBMS > Dgraph vs. GBase vs. HugeGraph vs. Lovefield vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. GBase vs. HugeGraph vs. Lovefield vs. RDF4J

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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.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

Primary database model

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Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

dgraph.io

www.gbase.cn

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

google.github.io/lovefield

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Baidu

Google

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

Initial release

2016

2004

2018

2014

2004

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

0.9

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS
Unix

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

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

Groovy
Java
Python

JavaScript

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

yes

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

yes

Users, roles and permissions

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