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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. HugeGraph vs. RDF4J vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

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

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

Primary database model

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Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/datastore

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

rdf4j.org

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

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Google

Baidu

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

Initial release

2008

2018

2004

2009

Current release

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (GQL)

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java
Python

Java
PHP
Python

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

edges in graph

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Users, roles and permissions

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