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DBMS > Axibase vs. BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NebulaGraph

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NebulaGraph

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score0.21
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score5.75
Rank#58  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score1.92
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.bigchaindb.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchgithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.nebula-graph.io
DeveloperAxibase CorporationMicrosoftMicrosoftVesoft Inc.
Initial release20132016199220152019
Current release155851902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019V1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLshostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesStrong typed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringnoyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes 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.
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIBrowser 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
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenouser defined functions
Triggersyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factornoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceCausal Clustering using Raft protocol
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes infousing RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes infousing Azure authenticationRole-based access control
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AxibaseBigchainDBMicrosoft AccessMicrosoft Azure AI SearchNebulaGraph
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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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