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.
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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Documentation up-to-date Docs exist but outdated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