DBMS > Dgraph vs. HugeGraph vs. Snowflake vs. ToroDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. HugeGraph vs. Snowflake 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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

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

Relational DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.snowflake.com

github.com/torodb/server

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Baidu

Snowflake Computing Inc.

8Kdata

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2016

2018

2014

2016

2011

Current release

0.9

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

hosted

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

Groovy
Java
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

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

yes

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

yes

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles

Based on Windows Authentication

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