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System Properties Comparison Citus vs. InfluxDB vs. NebulaGraph

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.21
Rank#129  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score26.89
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score2.36
Rank#124  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.nebula-graph.io
DeveloperVesoft Inc.
Initial release201020132019
Current release8.1, December 20182.7.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageCGoC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeStrong typed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyes
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.yes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes 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 SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
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++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nouser defined functions
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyCausal Clustering using Raft protocol
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsRole-based access control
More information provided by the system vendor
CitusInfluxDBNebulaGraph
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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NebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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NebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Social networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Companies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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At our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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NebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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