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Dgraph

A distributed graph database with horizontal scaling and ACID transactions. Uses its own query language (DQL) derived from GraphQL, with automatic shard rebalancing across cluster nodes.

Details

Vendor
Istari
Type
Property Graph
Category
Enterprise
License
Apache-2.0
Query Languages
DQL, GraphQL

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Feature Scores

Community & Business

Active development
Updated within last 3 months
Commercial support
Paid support available
Live community
25-50% of issues addressed
Open Source
Open source license
Pricing
No pricing information
Trendiness

Deployment

Containerization
Docker image available
Work as dedicated instance
Can run as standalone server
Work as embedded
Standalone only
Testing in-memory version
In-memory mode available

Platform

Operating on Linux
Linux officially supported
Operating on Windows
Windows officially supported
SaaS offering
Cloud service available

Operations

Automatic updates
Manual updates only
Client side caching
No client-side caching
Data versioning support
No versioning
Live backups
Hot backup supported

Distribution

Cluster Re-balancing
Auto-rebalancing supported
Data Distribution
Data sharding supported
High-Availability
HA mechanisms available
Query Distribution
Distributed query execution
Replication support
Replication available

Developer Experience

Data types defined
Composite data types
Logging/Auditing
Object-Graph Mapper
No object mapper
Reactive programming
No reactive programming
Documentation up-to-date
Docs exist but outdated
Binary protocol
Binary protocol available
CLI
No CLI
GUI
Visual interface available

Data Model

Multi-database
Graph-only
Graph-native data
Native graph storage
REST API
REST endpoint available
Query Language
Standard query language (Cypher/Gremlin)

Transactions

Granular locking
No granular locking
Multiple isolation levels
Read uncommitted only
Read committed transaction
Not available
Transaction support
ACID transactions

Schema & Security

Constraints
No constraints
Schema support
Schema definition tools
Secondary indexes
Secondary indexes supported
Server side procedures
No stored procedures
Triggers
No triggers
Authentication
Authentication supported
Authorization
Role-based access control
Data encryption
Data encryption supported