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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. NebulaGraph vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. NebulaGraph vs. Pinecone

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score2.23
Rank#116  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitedgraph.iowww.hawkular.orggithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
www.pinecone.io
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.nebula-graph.iodocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Community supported by Red HatVesoft Inc.Pinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2016201420192019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeStrong typed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesString, Number, Boolean
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.nononono
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 SQLnonoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
HTTP RESTBrowser 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
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions
Triggersnoyes infovia Hawkular Alerting
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via Raftselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraCausal Clustering using Raft protocol
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesnoRole-based access control
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DgraphHawkular MetricsNebulaGraphPinecone
Specific characteristicsNebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantagesNebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenariosSocial networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Key customersCompanies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metricsAt our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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Licensing and pricing modelsNebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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