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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. HugeGraph vs. ObjectBox vs. ToroDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.48
Rank	#158	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#339	Overall
	#33	Graph DBMS

Score	1.22
Rank	#172	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#347	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

objectbox.io

github.com/torodb/server

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.objectbox.io

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Baidu

ObjectBox Limited

8Kdata

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2016

2018

2017

2016

2011

Current release

0.9

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Proprietary native API

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

none

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

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

Users, roles and permissions

yes

Access rights for users and roles

Based on Windows Authentication

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