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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. HEAVY.AI vs. MySQL vs. OpenEdge

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Widely used open source RDBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.mysql.com

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

docs.heavy.ai

dev.mysql.com/doc

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2016

1995

1984

Current release

5.10, January 2022

8.4.0, April 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

Round robin

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

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

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users and groups

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