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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. H2GIS vs. NebulaGraph vs. Newts vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Spatial extension of H2

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.h2gis.org

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

opennms.github.io/newts

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.nebula-graph.io

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

4D, Inc

CNRS

Vesoft Inc.

OpenNMS Group

quasardb

Initial release

1984

2013

2019

2014

2009

Current release

v20, April 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

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

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

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

based on H2

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

yes

based on H2

Role-based access control

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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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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