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System Properties Comparison Apache Derby vs. NebulaGraph vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Score	3.42
Rank	#76	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#139	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#394	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

db.apache.org/derby

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

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

docs.nebula-graph.io

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Vesoft Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1997

2019

2015

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

schema-free

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.

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

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

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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Specific characteristics

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

NebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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