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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. gStore vs. Ingres vs. JaguarDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Well established RDBMS

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

en.gstore.cn

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.jaguardb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

docs.actian.com/ingres

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Actian Corporation

DataJaguar, Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2015

1987

Current release

1.2, November 2023

11.2, May 2022

3.3 July 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Ingres Replicator

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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.

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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