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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. GeoMesa vs. Ignite vs. Sadas Engine vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#371	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

CCRi and others

Apache Software Foundation

SADAS s.r.l.

Transwarp

Initial release

2016

2014

2015

2006

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

Apache Ignite 2.6

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

depending on storage layer

yes (replicated cache)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

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.

depending on storage layer

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

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