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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. NebulaGraph vs. OpenSearch vs. RavenDB

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Graph DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score2.23
Rank#116  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score16.03
Rank#37  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitewww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
github.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
ravendb.net
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.nebula-graph.ioopensearch.org/­docs/­latestravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftVesoft Inc.Amazon Web ServicesHibernating Rhinos
Initial release2010201920212010
Current release2.5.0, January 20235.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation language.NET and CC++JavaC#
Server operating systems.NETLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeyesStrong typed schemaschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes 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.yes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP 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
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyesyes
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesCausal Clustering using Raft protocolyesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 storageyes infousing RocksDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAuthorization levels configured per client per database
More information provided by the system vendor
Graph Engine infoformer name: TrinityNebulaGraphOpenSearchRavenDB
Specific characteristicsNebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesNebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosSocial networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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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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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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Graph Engine infoformer name: TrinityNebulaGraphOpenSearchRavenDB
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