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System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. NebulaGraph

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Name

Description

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	1.16
Rank	#168	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#106	Overall
	#19	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	1.58
Rank	#139	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Website

www.firebolt.io

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

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

Technical documentation

docs.firebolt.io

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

docs.nebula-graph.io

Developer

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

InterSystems

Vesoft Inc.

Initial release

2020

2018

2019

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

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++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

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.

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP 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

Supported programming languages

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

InterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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NebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantages

NebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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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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