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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. NebulaGraph vs. SQL.JS

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  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.)A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score2.23
Rank#116  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.bigchaindb.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessgithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
sql.js.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.nebula-graph.iosql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAxibase CorporationMicrosoftVesoft Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20132016199220192012
Current release155851902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC++C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesStrong typed schemayes
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 indexesnoyesyes 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 standardSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
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
JavaScript API
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
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factornoneCausal Clustering using Raft protocolnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infousing RocksDBno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Role-based access controlno
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AxibaseBigchainDBMicrosoft AccessNebulaGraphSQL.JS
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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