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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Hypertable vs. Riak KV

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

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Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

dgraph.io

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Hypertable Inc.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2016

2009

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

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

C++ API
Thrift

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

selectable replication factor on file system level

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

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

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

yes, using Riak Security

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