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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. ArangoDB vs. CrateDB vs. NebulaGraph vs. Transbase

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.Distributed Database based on LuceneA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.20
Rank#119  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score3.32
Rank#90  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score0.73
Rank#224  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score2.14
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptunearangodb.comcratedb.comgithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesdocs.arangodb.comcratedb.com/­docsdocs.nebula-graph.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebookInstagram
DeveloperAmazonArangoDB Inc.CrateVesoft Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20172012201320191987
Current release3.11.5, November 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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ArangoDB Cloud –The Managed Cloud Service of ArangoDB. Provides fully managed, and monitored cluster deployments of any size, with enterprise-grade security. Get started for free and continue for as little as $0,21/hour.CrateDB Cloud: a distributed SQL database that spreads data and processing across an elastic cluster of shared nothing nodes. CrateDB Cloud enables data insights at scale on Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
Implementation languageC++JavaC++C and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)Strong typed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes 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
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitySQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
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
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJavaScriptuser defined functions (Javascript)user defined functionsyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infosince version 2.0ShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.Source-replica replication with configurable replication factorConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelCausal Clustering using Raft protocolSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoconfigurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)
Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsyes inforelationships in graphsnoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategyACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesrights management via user accountsRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Amazon NeptuneArangoDBCrateDBNebulaGraphTransbase
Specific characteristicsGraph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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The enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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NebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantagesConsolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Response time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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NebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenariosNative multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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Social networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Key customersCisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Across all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Companies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metricsArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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The CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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At our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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Licensing and pricing modelsVery permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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See CrateDB pricing >
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NebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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