Gaffer
A graph database framework with pluggable storage backends (Accumulo, HBase, Parquet). Developed by GCHQ for large-scale graph analysis with built-in timestamp management.
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Community & Business
Active development Updated within last 3 months
Commercial support No commercial support
Live community No community activity data
Open Source Open source license
Pricing No pricing information
Trendiness Declining trend
Deployment
Containerization No container image
Work as dedicated instance Embedded mode only
Work as embedded Standalone only
Testing in-memory version No in-memory option
Platform
Operating on Linux Linux officially supported
Operating on Windows Windows officially supported
SaaS offering Self-hosted only
Operations
Automatic updates Manual updates only
Client side caching No client-side caching
Data versioning support No versioning
Live backups No live backups
Distribution
Cluster Re-balancing No auto-rebalancing
Data Distribution Data sharding supported
High-Availability No HA support
Query Distribution Distributed query execution
Replication support Replication available
Developer Experience
Data types defined Basic data types only
Logging/Auditing Event logging supported
Object-Graph Mapper OGM/ORM available
Reactive programming No reactive programming
Documentation up-to-date Docs current with latest version
Binary protocol Text-based protocols only
CLI No CLI
GUI No GUI
Data Model
Multi-database Graph-only
Graph-native data Native graph storage
REST API REST endpoint available
Query Language No query language
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 Primary index only
Server side procedures No stored procedures
Triggers No triggers
Authentication Authentication supported
Authorization Role-based access control
Data encryption No encryption