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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. HugeGraph vs. Lovefield vs. Postgres-XL vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

google.github.io/lovefield

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Baidu

Google

Teradata

Initial release

2016

2018

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2005

Current release

0.9

2.1.12, February 2017

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

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

Groovy
Java
Python

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

user defined functions

R packages

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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