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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Heroic vs. STSdb vs. Trafodion vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Heroic vs. STSdb vs. Trafodion vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSearch engine
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Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#350  Overall
#153  Relational DBMS
Websitedgraph.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4trafodion.apache.orgwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroictrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmldocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.SpotifySTS Soft SCApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPTranswarp
Initial release2016201420112014
Current release4.0.8, September 20152.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC#C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via Raftyesnoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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