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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. NebulaGraph vs. RocksDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	2.23
Rank	#116	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

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

rocksdb.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.nebula-graph.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Vesoft Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2019

2013

1987

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
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

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C++

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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