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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. NebulaGraph vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.11
Rank	#340	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#33	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.75
Rank	#128	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#176	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#16	Graph DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

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

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.nebula-graph.io

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Vesoft Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2012

2019

2022

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

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.

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

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

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Role-based access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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