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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. RDF4J vs. TigerGraph vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

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

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

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

RDF store

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	1.44
Rank	#152	Overall
	#14	Graph DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#345	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS

Website

galaxybase.com

rdf4j.org

www.tigergraph.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

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

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

Initial release

2017

2004

2017

2009

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

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

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

Java
PHP
Python

C++
Java

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

optional

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

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