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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. MonetDB vs. TiDB vs. TinkerGraph vs. Trafodion

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA relational database management system that stores data in columnsTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APITransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
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Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitedgraph.iowww.monetdb.orgpingcap.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlintrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docswww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stabletrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.MonetDB BVPingCAP, Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20162004201620092014
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20238.0.0, March 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCGo, RustJavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
TinkerPop 3ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Groovy
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in SQL, C, RnonoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesSharding via remote tableshorizontal partitioning (by key range)noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via Raftnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.noneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infowith TiSpark Connectornoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infofull support since version 6.6yes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptionalyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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DgraphMonetDBTiDBTinkerGraphTrafodion
Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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