IBM System G
A discontinued IBM Research graph platform supporting both property graph and RDF models. Used compressed sparse vector storage with temporal offsets and included visual query tools.
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Community & Business
Active development No updates in 6+ months
Commercial support No commercial support
Live community No community activity data
Open Source Closed source
Pricing No pricing information
Trendiness Declining trend
Deployment
Containerization No container image
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 Not 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 No replication
Developer Experience
Data types defined Basic data types only
Logging/Auditing No logging/auditing
Object-Graph Mapper No object mapper
Reactive programming No reactive programming
Documentation up-to-date No documentation
Binary protocol Binary protocol available
CLI Command-line interface
GUI No GUI
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-less
Secondary indexes Primary index only
Server side procedures No stored procedures
Triggers No triggers
Authentication No authentication
Authorization No authorization
Data encryption No encryption