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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. NebulaGraph vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

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Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	2.14
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	1.32
Rank	#162	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.nebula-graph.io

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Esgyn

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Vesoft Inc.

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2015

2010

2014

2019

2018

Current release

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Erlang

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Strong typed schema

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

via views

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JavaScript 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

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

NebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

Social networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Key customers

Companies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metrics

At our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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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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