DBMS > Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. GeoMesa vs. NebulaGraph vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. GeoMesa vs. NebulaGraph vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

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

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

dgraph.io

www.esgyn.cn

www.geomesa.org

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

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

docs.nebula-graph.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Esgyn

CCRi and others

Vesoft Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2015

2014

2019

2013

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
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

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

depending on storage layer

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

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.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Role-based access control

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