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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. gStore vs. Kingbase vs. RavenDB

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Name

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Website

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

Microsoft

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Hibernating Rhinos

Initial release

2010

2016

1999

2010

Current release

1.2, November 2023

V8.0, August 2021

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C++

C and Java

Server operating systems

.NET

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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