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DBMS > Graph Engine vs. IBM Cloudant vs. NebulaGraph vs. Sqrrl vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. IBM Cloudant vs. NebulaGraph vs. Sqrrl vs. TypeDB

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Document storeGraph DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score2.14
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.graphengine.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
sqrrl.comtypedb.com
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.nebula-graph.iotypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Vesoft Inc.Amazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.Vaticle
Initial release20102010201920122016
Current release2.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation language.NET and CErlangC++JavaJava
Server operating systems.NEThostedLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeStrong typed schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes 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 SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIBrowser 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
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingShardingSharding infomaking use of HadoopSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Causal Clustering using Raft protocolselectable replication factor infomaking use of HadoopMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsnono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entityACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes infousing RocksDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole-based access controlCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)yes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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Graph Engine infoformer name: TrinityIBM CloudantNebulaGraphSqrrlTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsNebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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TypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesNebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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TypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosSocial networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Life sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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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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Apache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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