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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. DataFS vs. NebulaGraph vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.23
Rank	#116	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

newdatabase.com

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

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

docs.nebula-graph.io

Developer

Mobiland AG

Vesoft Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2013

2018

2019

2018

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

Strong typed schema

schema-free

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.

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.

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

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

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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

Windows-Profile

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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

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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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