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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. GridDB vs. H2 vs. HEAVY.AI vs. NebulaGraph

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score2.23
Rank#116  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cngriddb.netwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
Technical documentationdocs.griddb.netwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.heavy.aidocs.nebula-graph.io
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Toshiba CorporationThomas MuellerHEAVY.AI, Inc.Vesoft Inc.
Initial release20042013200520162019
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c5.1, August 20222.2.220, July 20235.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC++JavaC++ and CUDAC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesStrong typed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infoNebula 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 infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)yesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis infoORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL
Supported programming languagesC#C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnouser defined functions
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingnoneSharding infoRound robinSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replicationCausal Clustering using Raft protocol
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID at container levelACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infousing RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control
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GBaseGridDBH2HEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022NebulaGraph
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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NebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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NebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Social networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Companies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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At our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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NebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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