DBMS > Apache Druid vs. JSqlDb vs. NebulaGraph vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. JSqlDb vs. NebulaGraph vs. Snowflake

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	2.23
Rank	#116	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

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

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.nebula-graph.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Konrad von Backstrom

Vesoft Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2018

2019

2014

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

Strong typed schema

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

yes

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

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

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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