DBMS > Databend vs. Machbase Neo vs. NebulaGraph vs. RocksDB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Databend vs. Machbase Neo vs. NebulaGraph vs. RocksDB vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.34
Rank	#283	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.23
Rank	#116	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

machbase.com

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

rocksdb.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.databend.com

machbase.com/dbms

docs.nebula-graph.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Databend Labs

Machbase

Vesoft Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

SiteWhere

Initial release

2021

2013

2019

2013

2010

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

V8.0, August 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Rust

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted
Linux
macOS

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

schema-free

predefined scheme

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
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

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

yes

ACID

yes

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

simple password-based access control

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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