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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.79
Rank	#66	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores
	#16	Vector DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.jaguardb.com

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

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.nebula-graph.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

DataJaguar, Inc.

Vesoft Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2009

2015

2019

2014

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Strong typed schema

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

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

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

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

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

rights management via user accounts

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

NebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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