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Alibaba GDB

A managed cloud graph database service on Alibaba Cloud, using the property graph model with TinkerPop support. Provides ACID transactions and horizontal scalability. Also available as TuGraph in open-source form.

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Overall rank
#112
First released
March 2019
License
Proprietary

Details

Vendor
Alibaba Cloud
Type
Property Graph
Category
Enterprise
License
Proprietary
Protocols
BoltGremlin (WebSocket)

Feature scores

Community & Business

Active development
✓
Updated within last 3 months
Commercial support
✓
Paid support available
Live community
0%
No community activity data
Open Source
0%
Closed source
Pricing
✓
Pricing publicly available
Trendiness
✓
Growing or stable trend

Deployment

Containerization
0%
No container image
Work as dedicated instance
✓
Can run as standalone server
Work as embedded
0%
Standalone only
Testing in-memory version
0%
No in-memory option

Platform

Operating on Linux
✓
Linux officially supported
Operating on Windows
0%
Not supported
SaaS offering
✓
Cloud service available

Operations

Automatic updates
✓
Automatic updates supported
Client side caching
0%
No client-side caching
Data versioning support
0%
No versioning
Live backups
✓
Hot backup supported

Distribution

Cluster Re-balancing
0%
No auto-rebalancing
Data Distribution
0%
No sharding
High-Availability
✓
HA mechanisms available
Query Distribution
50%
No description available
Replication support
✓
Replication available

Developer Experience

Data types defined
0%
Single data type (strings)
Logging/Auditing
✓
Event logging supported
Object-Graph Mapper
0%
No object mapper
Reactive programming
0%
No reactive programming
Documentation up-to-date
✓
Docs current with latest version
Binary protocol
✓
Binary protocol available
CLI
0%
No CLI
GUI
0%
No GUI

Data Model

Multi-database
0%
Graph-only
Graph-native data
✓
Native graph storage
REST API
0%
No REST API
Query Language
✓
Standard query language (Cypher/Gremlin)

Transactions

Granular locking
✓
Object-level locking
Multiple isolation levels
✓
Multiple isolation levels
Read committed transaction
✓
Read committed available
Transaction support
✓
ACID transactions

Schema & Security

Constraints
50%
Uniqueness constraints only
Schema support
50%
Constraints/triggers only
Secondary indexes
✓
Secondary indexes supported
Server side procedures
0%
No stored procedures
Triggers
0%
No triggers
Authentication
✓
Authentication supported
Authorization
0%
No authorization
Data encryption
0%
No encryption
Sources 4 references

Protocols Gremlin (WebSocket), Bolt

Gremlin access is documented only over WebSocket (port 8182), not HTTP; Cypher access is documented as bolt-v3 via the neo4j-java-driver, which the draft omitted, so this disagrees with the draft.

License Proprietary

No public license or source repository exists. Alibaba Cloud's own product page describes GDB as its self-developed, independently-controlled product, sold only as a metered/subscription cloud console service, consistent with the current catalogue value.

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Released 2019-03

Confirms current value. Alibaba Cloud's own developer-community article states GDB was released as a new database product in March 2019 at the Alibaba Cloud Summit Beijing.