DBMS > Apache Druid vs. NebulaGraph vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. NebulaGraph vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

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

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

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

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

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

rocksdb.org

rockset.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.nebula-graph.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rockset.com

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Vesoft Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Rockset

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2012

2019

2013

2019

2003

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

Strong typed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

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.

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

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

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

ACID

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

planned for next version

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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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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