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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. NebulaGraph vs. OpenMLDB

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Name

Description

A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.80
Rank	#91	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#134	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#358	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/spanner

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

openmldb.ai

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

docs.nebula-graph.io

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

Developer

Google

Vesoft Inc.

4 Paradigm Inc.

Initial release

2017

2019

2020

Current release

2024-2 February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

Fixed 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.

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.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
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

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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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