DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. eXtremeDB vs. NebulaGraph vs. PouchDB vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. eXtremeDB vs. NebulaGraph vs. PouchDB vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#303	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	0.80
Rank	#214	Overall
	#99	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.23
Rank	#116	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.mcobject.com

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

pouchdb.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

docs.nebula-graph.io

pouchdb.com/guides

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

McObject

Vesoft Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2018

2001

2019

2012

2000

Current release

2.3, January 2021

8.2, 2021

7.1.1, June 2019

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

server-less

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Strong typed schema

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

support of XML interfaces available

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.

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP 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

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

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

Role-based access control

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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

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