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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InfinityDB vs. NebulaGraph vs. Rockset

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Event Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeGraph DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score2.14
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeboilerbay.comgithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
rockset.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storeboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.nebula-graph.iodocs.rockset.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsIBMBoiler Bay Inc.Vesoft Inc.Rockset
Initial release20122017200220192019
Current release29.0.1, April 20242.04.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++JavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAll OS with a Java VMLinuxhosted
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeStrong typed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesdynamic typing
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.nonononono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes 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.all fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenoSQL-like query languageRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Browser 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
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Java.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingnoneShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesActive-active shard replicationnoneCausal Clustering using Raft protocolyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes infousing RocksDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console
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Apache DruidIBM Db2 Event StoreInfinityDBNebulaGraphRockset
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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