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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.

Well established RDBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.gbase.cn

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

docs.actian.com/ingres

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Actian Corporation

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2004

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2018

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

11.2, May 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

Ingres Replicator

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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