DBMS > Dgraph vs. Google BigQuery vs. Graphite vs. StarRocks

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Google BigQuery vs. Graphite vs. StarRocks

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

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Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Google

Chris Davis

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2016

2010

2006

2020

Current release

2.5.3, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Unix

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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