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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Google BigQuery vs. gStore

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

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Score	1.39
Rank	#155	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Website

dgraph.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery

en.gstore.cn

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Google

Initial release

2016

2010

2016

Current release

1.2, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

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
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

yes

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.

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, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

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