DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Apache Druid vs. Google BigQuery vs. NebulaGraph vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Apache Druid vs. Google BigQuery vs. NebulaGraph vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Description

High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMS

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.13
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#8	Vector DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.23
Rank	#116	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

allegrograph.com

druid.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

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

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

franz.com/agraph/support/documentation/current/agraph-introduction.html

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.nebula-graph.io

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Franz Inc.

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Google

Vesoft Inc.

Oracle

Initial release

2004

2012

2010

2019

2007

Current release

8.0, December 2023

29.0.1, April 2024

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

Strong typed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

bulk load of XML files possible

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

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL for querying

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

optionally

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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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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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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