DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Google BigQuery vs. NebulaGraph vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Google BigQuery vs. NebulaGraph vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RethinkDB

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Name

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.23
Rank	#116	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

druid.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

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

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.nebula-graph.io

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Google

Vesoft Inc.

Oracle

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2012

2010

2019

2007

2009

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

14.1, August 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

Strong typed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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 for querying

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP/JSON 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

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

configurable

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

optionally

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

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

yes

users and table-level permissions

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