DBMS > Dgraph vs. H2GIS vs. Prometheus vs. RDF4J vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. H2GIS vs. Prometheus vs. RDF4J vs. SQream DB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Spatial extension of H2

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.39
Rank	#155	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	7.56
Rank	#49	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.62
Rank	#234	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

prometheus.io/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

CNRS

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2016

2013

2015

2004

2017

Current release

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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.

Import of XML data possible

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

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Java

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Java
PHP
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

based on H2

yes

by Federation

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

yes

based on H2

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

Recent citations in the news

Top Open Source Graph Databases
3 June 2024, MarkTechPost

Graph Database Market size to grow by USD 7.40 billion between 2022 - 2027 | Growth Driven by Lack of standardization and programming flexibility - Technavio
13 December 2023, Yahoo Finance

Dgraph on AWS: Setting up a horizontally scalable graph database
1 September 2020, AWS Blog

Dgraph raises $11.5 million for scalable graph database solutions
31 July 2019, VentureBeat

provided by Google News

Introducing the Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics Prometheus Connector
8 July 2024, AWS Blog

How to Monitor an Ubuntu Server With Prometheus: Collecting and Visualizing System Metrics
9 July 2024, Linux Journal

VTEX scales to 150 million metrics using Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus
10 March 2024, AWS Blog

Consider Grafana vs. Prometheus for your time-series tools
18 October 2021, TechTarget

My Prometheus is Overwhelmed! Help!
24 July 2021, hackernoon.com

provided by Google News

I SQream, you SQream, we all SQream for … data analytics?
5 October 2023, Fierce Network

GPU data warehouse startup SQream lands $39.4M funding round
24 June 2020, SiliconANGLE News

SQream Technologies raises $39.4 million for GPU-accelerated databases
24 June 2020, VentureBeat

SQream Announces Hadoop SQL Big Data Challenge to Unlock Business Critical Insights
5 September 2019, PR Newswire

Accelerated Databases In The Fast Lane
25 June 2020, The Next Platform

provided by Google News

Share this page