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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Druid vs. NebulaGraph vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

druid.apache.org

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

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.nebula-graph.io

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Vesoft Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2012

2019

2018

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

Strong typed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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.

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.

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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

Supported programming languages

Java

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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

Access managed on TSDB instance level

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Role-based access control

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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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