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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Prometheus vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

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.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

RDF store

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Score	1.39
Rank	#155	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#377	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.56
Rank	#49	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

prometheus.io/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Community supported by Red Hat

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

Initial release

2016

2014

2015

2004

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

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

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

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