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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Druid vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. NebulaGraph

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Druid vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. NebulaGraph

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score2.23
Rank#116  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storedruid.apache.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designhugegraph.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.nebula-graph.io
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsBaiduIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Vesoft Inc.
Initial release20162012201820102019
Current release29.0.1, April 20240.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaErlangC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
macOS
Unix
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeStrong typed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyes 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.
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIBrowser 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
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Groovy
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Causal Clustering using Raft protocol
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonovia hugegraph-sparkyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoedges in graphnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infousing RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole-based access control
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreApache DruidHugeGraphIBM CloudantNebulaGraph
Specific characteristicsNebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantagesNebulaGraph 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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