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DBMS > Dgraph vs. GBase vs. HugeGraph vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. GBase vs. HugeGraph vs. Titan

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Websitedgraph.iowww.gbase.cngithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
github.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docshugegraph.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.General Data Technology Co., Ltd.BaiduAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release2016200420182012
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c0.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC, Java, PythonJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#Groovy
Java
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsasynchronous Gremlin script jobsyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via Raftyesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparkyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoedges in graphyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesyesUsers, roles and permissionsUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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