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DBMS > Dgraph vs. gStore vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. gStore vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. Spark SQL

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#359  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#18  RDF stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitedgraph.ioen.gstore.cngithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
google.github.io/­lovefieldspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocsdocs.heavy.aigithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.GoogleApache Software Foundation
Initial release20162016201620142014
Current release1.2, November 20235.10, January 20222.1.12, February 20173.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++C++ and CUDAJavaScriptScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaScriptJava
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonono
TriggersnonoUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesSharding infoRound robinnoneyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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