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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. mSQL vs. Quasardb vs. Stardog

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.39
Rank	#155	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.93
Rank	#121	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

dgraph.io

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

quasar.ai

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Hughes Technologies

quasardb

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2016

1994

2009

2010

Current release

4.4, October 2021

3.14.1, January 2024

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

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

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

none

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

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

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Access rights for users and roles

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