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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Galaxybase vs. NebulaGraph

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Name

Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Graph DBMS

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Score	2.13
Rank	#111	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#41	Graph DBMS

Score	1.75
Rank	#128	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

galaxybase.com

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

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

docs.nebula-graph.io

Developer

Amazon

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Vesoft Inc.

Initial release

2017

2019

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

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.

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native 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

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-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.

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with encyption-at-rest

yes

using RocksDB

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 for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control

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