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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. AllegroGraph vs. HugeGraph vs. NebulaGraph vs. Sphinx

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMSGraph DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score2.14
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeallegrograph.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
github.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
sphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorefranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.nebula-graph.iosphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaFranz Inc.BaiduVesoft Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20162004201820192001
Current release8.0, December 20230.93.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasyesStrong typed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono infobulk load of XML files possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes infoNebula 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 infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languagenoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis infoORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
Groovy
Java
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispasynchronous Gremlin script jobsuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicewith Federationyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseCausal Clustering using Raft protocolnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonovia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoedges in graphyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationUsers, roles and permissionsRole-based access controlno
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreAllegroGraphHugeGraphNebulaGraphSphinx
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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NebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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NebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenariosSocial networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Key customersCompanies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metricsAt our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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Licensing and pricing modelsNebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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