DBMS > Dgraph vs. Google BigQuery vs. HugeGraph vs. Lovefield vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Google BigQuery vs. HugeGraph vs. Lovefield vs. Titan

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Name

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.

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Google

Baidu

Google

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2016

2010

2018

2014

2012

Current release

0.9

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Unix
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.

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java
Python

JavaScript

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

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)

Users, roles and permissions

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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