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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GBase vs. NebulaGraph vs. PieCloudDB

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Name

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS

Score	0.37
Rank	#271	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.gbase.cn

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

www.openpie.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.nebula-graph.io

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Vesoft Inc.

OpenPie

Initial release

2016

2004

2019

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Strong typed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

yes

Role-based access control

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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Specific characteristics

NebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantages

NebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenarios

Social networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customers

Companies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities etc.,
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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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PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment；...
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