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DBMS > GBase vs. Ignite vs. NebulaGraph vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Ignite vs. NebulaGraph vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Teradata Aster

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSWidely used in-process key-value storePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score2.14
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnignite.apache.orggithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html
Technical documentationapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.nebula-graph.iodocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Apache Software FoundationVesoft Inc.Oracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleTeradata
Initial release20042015201919942005
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cApache Ignite 2.618.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0Open Source infocommercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC++, Java, .NetC++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesStrong typed schemaschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.yesyesnoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesyesyes 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.yesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
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
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC#C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)user defined functionsnoR packages
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infoonly for the SQL APIno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes (replicated cache)Causal Clustering using Raft protocolSource-replica replicationyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing RocksDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsRole-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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GBaseIgniteNebulaGraphOracle Berkeley DBTeradata Aster
Specific characteristicsNebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantagesNebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenariosSocial networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Key customersCompanies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metricsAt our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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Licensing and pricing modelsNebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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