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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. GridGain vs. NebulaGraph vs. TiDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score2.14
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
pingcap.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.nebula-graph.iodocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.Vesoft Inc.PingCAP, Inc.
Initial release2013200720192016
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.18.0.0, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJava, C++, .NetC++Go, Rust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesStrong typed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes 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.yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
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
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesGoC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)user defined functionsno
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes (replicated cache)Causal Clustering using Raft protocolUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)noyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsRole-based access controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
BoltDBGridGainNebulaGraphTiDB
Specific characteristicsNebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantagesNebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosSocial networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersCompanies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metricsAt our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsNebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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