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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Cubrid vs. Graph Engine vs. JanusGraph vs. NebulaGraph

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Cubrid vs. Graph Engine vs. JanusGraph vs. NebulaGraph

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Graph DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score1.20
Rank#169  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score2.14
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comcubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
www.graphengine.iojanusgraph.orggithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comcubrid.org/­manualswww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.janusgraph.orgdocs.nebula-graph.io
DeveloperBlazegraphCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationMicrosoftLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusVesoft Inc.
Initial release20062008201020172019
Current release2.1.5, March 201911.0, January 20210.6.3, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++, Java.NET and CJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
.NETLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesStrong typed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes 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.
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyesnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
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
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Clojure
Java
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored Proceduresyesyesuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioningyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyesCausal Clustering using Raft protocol
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes infousing RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerRole-based access control
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BlazegraphCubridGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityJanusGraph infosuccessor of TitanNebulaGraph
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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