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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. RisingWave

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.39
Rank	#155	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	5.72
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	24.97
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.61
Rank	#237	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

hazelcast.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.risingwave.com/database

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Hazelcast

Microsoft

RisingWave Labs

Initial release

2016

2008

2014

2022

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

JavaScript

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

yes

Events

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

Replicated Map

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Role-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users and Roles

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