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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. NebulaGraph vs. ObjectBox vs. openGauss

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Name

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.56
Rank	#241	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	1.92
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#175	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Website

www.graphengine.io

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

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.nebula-graph.io

docs.objectbox.io

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

Developer

Microsoft

Vesoft Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

Huawei and openGauss community

Initial release

2010

2019

2017

2019

Current release

4.0 (May 2024)

3.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C++

C and C++

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

.NET

Linux

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL 2011

APIs and other access methods

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

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

C
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

Source-replica replication

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

yes

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

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

Role-based access control

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

NebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

Social networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Key customers

Companies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metrics

At our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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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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