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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. GBase vs. ObjectBox vs. Transwarp Hippo

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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.

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#386	Overall
	#14	Vector DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.gbase.cn

objectbox.io

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2016

2004

2017

2023

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C++
Java
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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

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

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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Recent citations in the news

Dgraph on AWS: Setting up a horizontally scalable graph database | Amazon Web Services
1 September 2020, AWS Blog

Dgraph Rises to the Top Graph Database on GitHub With 11 G2 Badges and 11M Downloads
26 May 2021, Business Wire

Dgraph raises $11.5 million for scalable graph database solutions
31 July 2019, VentureBeat

Dgraph launches Slash GraphQL, a GraphQL-native database Backend-as-a-Service
10 September 2020, TechCrunch

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