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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Bangdb vs. NebulaGraph vs. TDengine

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

bangdb.com

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

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

Developer

4D, Inc

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Vesoft Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

1984

2012

2019

Current release

v20, April 2023

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Strong typed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

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.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

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

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

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

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

yes (enterprise version only)

Role-based access control

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

NebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenarios

Social networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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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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TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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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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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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