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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. NebulaGraph vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

rockset.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.nebula-graph.io

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Vesoft Inc.

Rockset

Initial release

2014

2012

2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Strong typed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

restricted

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.

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

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

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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