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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. GridGain vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.39
Rank	#155	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#150	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#26	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Simer Plaha

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2007

2018

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial, open source

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL

Scala

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

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

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
Kotlin
Scala

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes (replicated cache)

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

Role-based access control

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