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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. NebulaGraph vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

basex.org

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

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.nebula-graph.io

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Vesoft Inc.

SAP, Sybase

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2007

2019

1987

2003

Current release

10.7, August 2023

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

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.

yes

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.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

Java 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

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

NebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantages

NebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenarios

Social networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Key customers

Companies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metrics

At our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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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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