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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. JanusGraph vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
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Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

janusgraph.org

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

docs.janusgraph.org

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Kyligence, Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2016

2017

2016

1994

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Clojure
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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