DBMS > Axibase vs. Drizzle vs. NebulaGraph vs. NSDb vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Drizzle vs. NebulaGraph vs. NSDb vs. Riak TS

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.23
Rank	#116	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

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

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

docs.nebula-graph.io

nsdb.io/Architecture

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Vesoft Inc.

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2013

2008

2019

2017

2015

Current release

15585

7.2.4, September 2012

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java, Scala

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

all fields are automatically indexed

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

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

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Java
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Role-based access control

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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

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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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