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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Galaxybase vs. NebulaGraph vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.90
Rank	#135	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

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

Website

www.enterprisedb.com

galaxybase.com

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

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

docs.nebula-graph.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

EnterpriseDB

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Vesoft Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2005

2017

2019

2013

Current release

14, December 2021

Nov 20, November 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

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 and Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

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

standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
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

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

user defined procedures and functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

yes

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

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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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