DBMS > GeoSpock vs. JSqlDb vs. Lovefield vs. NebulaGraph vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. JSqlDb vs. Lovefield vs. NebulaGraph vs. TerarkDB

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

geospock.com

jsqldb.org (offline)

google.github.io/lovefield

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

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.nebula-graph.io

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

GeoSpock

Konrad von Backstrom

Google

Vesoft Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2018

2014

2019

2016

Current release

2.0, September 2019

0.8, December 2018

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Strong typed schema

schema-free

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

temporal, categorical

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

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

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

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

none

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

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

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Market metrics

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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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