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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HugeGraph vs. openGauss

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Google

Baidu

Huawei and openGauss community

Initial release

2016

2017

2018

2019

Current release

0.9

3.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux

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

ANSI SQL 2011

APIs and other access methods

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

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

yes

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

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication

yes

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

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Users, roles and permissions

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

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