DBMS > BigObject vs. Drizzle vs. Memgraph vs. NebulaGraph vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Drizzle vs. Memgraph vs. NebulaGraph vs. Sequoiadb

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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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#94	Overall
	#7	Graph DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

memgraph.com

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

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

memgraph.com/docs

docs.nebula-graph.io

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Social network pages

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Memgraph Ltd

Vesoft Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2008

2017

2019

2013

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

Strong typed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

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

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Users, roles and permissions

Role-based access control

simple password-based access control

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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NebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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