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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.

Details

Vendor
GCHQ
Type
Other
Kind
Query Engine
Category
Established
License
Apache-2.0
Query Languages
Custom API

Links

Feature Scores

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