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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. NebulaGraph vs. NSDb vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

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

Primary database model

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

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

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

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

nsdb.io

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.nebula-graph.io

nsdb.io/Architecture

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Vesoft Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2019

2017

2013

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

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 C++

C++

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

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

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Java
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica 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

Eventual 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

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

Using Apache Lucene

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Role-based access control

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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

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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