DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. NebulaGraph vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. NebulaGraph vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	2.23
Rank	#116	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

geospock.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

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

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.nebula-graph.io

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Franz Inc.

GeoSpock

Microsoft

Vesoft Inc.

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2004

2014

2019

2006

Current release

8.0, December 2023

2.0, September 2019

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

Strong typed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

temporal, categorical

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table 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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role-based access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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