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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. FeatureBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. NebulaGraph vs. Spark SQL

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#309  Overall
#139  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score2.14
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.featurebase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storegithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
spark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.featurebase.comwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.nebula-graph.iospark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsIBMVesoft Inc.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20142017201720192014
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20192022, May 20222.03.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC and C++C++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesStrong typed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes 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.no
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL queriesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBCgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
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
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesActive-active shard replicationCausal Clustering using Raft protocolnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using Linux fsyncYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes infousing RocksDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlno
More information provided by the system vendor
Apache PhoenixFeatureBaseIBM Db2 Event StoreNebulaGraphSpark SQL
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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