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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Phoenix vs. NebulaGraph vs. Newts vs. OpenQM

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#130	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	2.12
Rank	#125	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

phoenix.apache.org

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

opennms.github.io/newts

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

phoenix.apache.org

docs.nebula-graph.io

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Vesoft Inc.

OpenNMS Group

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

1984

2014

2019

2014

1993

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

Strong typed schema

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Java

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Role-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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Specific characteristics

NebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Companies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metrics

At our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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Licensing and pricing models

NebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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