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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. RDF4J vs. RisingWave vs. Stardog

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

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

Primary database model

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Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.58
Rank	#242	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#123	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

dgraph.io

rdf4j.org

www.risingwave.com/database

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

RisingWave Labs

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2016

2004

2022

2010

Current release

1.2, September 2023

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

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

Java

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

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

Java
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

UDFs in Python or Java

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

none

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

Users and Roles

Access rights for users and roles

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