DBMS > Galaxybase vs. MySQL vs. SWC-DB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. MySQL vs. SWC-DB vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Widely used open source RDBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	1.44
Rank	#152	Overall
	#14	Graph DBMS

Website

galaxybase.com

www.mysql.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2017

1995

2020

2017

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

9.0.0, July 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C++

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Role-based access control

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