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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. HyperSQL vs. NebulaGraph vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.37
Rank	#278	Overall
	#128	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	2.23
Rank	#116	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

www.postgresql.fastware.com

hsqldb.org

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

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.postgresql.fastware.com/product-manuals

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.nebula-graph.io

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software Technology

Vesoft Inc.

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2013

2001

2019

1993

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 2022

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

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-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

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

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

Java, SQL

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

partitioning by range, list and by hash

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

none

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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

Companies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metrics

At our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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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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