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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. Dragonfly vs. Graph Engine vs. NebulaGraph

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NameAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#317  Overall
#141  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score2.23
Rank#116  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.graphengine.iogithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.nebula-graph.io
DeveloperAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedDragonflyDB team and community contributorsMicrosoftVesoft Inc.
Initial release202320102019
Current release1.0, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++.NET and CC++
Server operating systemsLinux.NETLinux
Data schemeyesscheme-freeyesStrong typed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes 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.
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL2016 compliantnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolRESTful HTTP APIBrowser 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
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesuser defined functions
Triggersyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationCausal Clustering using Raft protocol
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes infousing RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationRole-based access control
More information provided by the system vendor
AntDBDragonflyGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityNebulaGraph
Specific characteristicsNebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantagesNebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenariosSocial networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Key customersCompanies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metricsAt our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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Licensing and pricing modelsNebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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