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DBMS > BaseX vs. NebulaGraph vs. ObjectBox vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. NebulaGraph vs. ObjectBox vs. Titan

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSGraph DBMSObject oriented DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score2.14
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websitebasex.orggithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
objectbox.iogithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.nebula-graph.iodocs.objectbox.iogithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperBaseX GmbHVesoft Inc.ObjectBox LimitedAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release2007201920172012
Current release10.7, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeStrong typed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes 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.yesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
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
Proprietary native APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneCausal Clustering using Raft protocolonline/offline synchronization between client and serveryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing RocksDByesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsRole-based access controlyesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
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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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