DBMS > Datastax Enterprise vs. MariaDB vs. NebulaGraph vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB
System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. MariaDB vs. NebulaGraph vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB
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Name | Datastax Enterprise Xexclude from comparison | MariaDB Xexclude from comparison | NebulaGraph Xexclude from comparison | OpenTSDB Xexclude from comparison | Oracle Berkeley DB Xexclude from comparison | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description | DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform. | MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL. | A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS | Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase | Widely used in-process key-value store | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary database model | Wide column store | Relational DBMS | Graph DBMS | Time Series DBMS | Key-value store supports sorted and unsorted key sets Native XML DBMS in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Secondary database models | Document store Graph DBMS Spatial DBMS Search engine Vector DBMS | Document store Graph DBMS with OQGraph storage engine Spatial DBMS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Website | www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise | mariadb.com Site of MariaDB Corporation mariadb.org Site of MariaDB Foundation | github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula www.nebula-graph.io | opentsdb.net | www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Technical documentation | docs.datastax.com | mariadb.com/kb/en/library | docs.nebula-graph.io | opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html | docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developer | DataStax | MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise), MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server) The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL | Vesoft Inc. | currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors | Oracle originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Initial release | 2011 | 2009 Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995 | 2019 | 2011 | 1994 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current release | 6.8, April 2020 | 11.3.2, February 2024 | 18.1.40, May 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
License Commercial or Open Source | commercial | Open Source GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available | Open Source Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0 | Open Source LGPL | Open Source commercial license available | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service | no | no | no | no | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Implementation language | Java | C and C++ | C++ | Java | C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Server operating systems | Linux OS X | FreeBSD Linux Solaris Windows ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows | Linux | Linux Windows | AIX Android FreeBSD iOS Linux OS X Solaris VxWorks Windows | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data scheme | schema-free | yes Dynamic columns are supported | Strong typed schema | schema-free | schema-free | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Typing predefined data types such as float or date | yes | yes | yes | numeric data for metrics, strings for tags | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | no | yes | no | no | yes only with the Berkeley DB XML edition | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Secondary indexes | yes | yes | 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. | no | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SQL Support of SQL | SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL | yes with proprietary extensions | SQL-like query language | no | yes SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
APIs and other access methods | Proprietary protocol CQL (Cassandra Query Language) TinkerPop Gremlin with DSE Graph | ADO.NET JDBC ODBC Proprietary native API | 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 | HTTP API Telnet API | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Supported programming languages | C C# C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python Ruby | Ada C C# C++ D Eiffel Erlang Go Haskell Java JavaScript (Node.js) Objective-C OCaml Perl PHP Python Ruby Scheme Tcl | .Net C++ Go Java PHP Python | Erlang Go Java Python R Ruby | .Net Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET others Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages C C# C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js) 3rd party binding Perl Python Tcl | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Server-side scripts Stored procedures | no | yes PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3 | user defined functions | no | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Triggers | yes | yes | no | yes only for the SQL API | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes | Sharding no "single point of failure" | several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding | Sharding | Sharding based on HBase | none | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes | configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing | Multi-source replication Source-replica replication | Causal Clustering using Raft protocol | selectable replication factor based on HBase | Source-replica replication | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods | yes | no | no | no | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system | Immediate Consistency Tunable Consistency consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation | Immediate Consistency | Immediate Consistency | Immediate Consistency based on HBase | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Foreign keys Referential integrity | no | yes not for MyISAM storage engine | yes Relationships in graphs | no | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data | no Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations | ACID not for MyISAM storage engine | ACID | no | ACID | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Durability Support for making data persistent | yes | yes not for in-memory storage engine | yes using RocksDB | yes | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only. | yes | yes with MEMORY storage engine | yes | no | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
User concepts Access control | Access rights for users can be defined per object | fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard | Role-based access control | no | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Datastax Enterprise | MariaDB | NebulaGraph | OpenTSDB | Oracle Berkeley DB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Specific characteristics | DataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to... » more | MariaDB is the most powerful open source relational database – modern SQL and JSON... » more | NebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,... » more | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Competitive advantages | Supporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache... » more | MariaDB Servers have many features unavailable in other open source relational databases.... » more | NebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host... » more | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Typical application scenarios | Applications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able... » more | Web, SaaS and Cloud operational applications that require high availability, scalability... » more | Social networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti... » more | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Key customers | Capital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and... » more | Deutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon and Walgreens Featured... » more | Companies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,... » more | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Market metrics | Among the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top... » more | MariaDB is the default database in the LAMP stack supplied by Red Hat and SUSE Linux,... » more | At our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub... » more | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensing and pricing models | Annual subscription » more | MariaDB plc subscriptions cover our free, open source database, Community Server,... » more | NebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license. » more | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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