DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Google BigQuery vs. NebulaGraph vs. SpaceTime vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Google BigQuery vs. NebulaGraph vs. SpaceTime vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.23
Rank	#116	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

cloud.google.com/bigquery

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

www.mireo.com/spacetime

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.nebula-graph.io

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Alibaba

Google

Vesoft Inc.

Mireo

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2016

2010

2019

2020

2019

Current release

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Strong typed schema

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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.

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Python

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

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 rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control

yes

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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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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