DBMS > Graph Engine vs. NebulaGraph vs. Oracle vs. Sqrrl vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. NebulaGraph vs. Oracle vs. Sqrrl vs. Trino

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

Widely used RDBMS

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	2.14
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

www.graphengine.io

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

www.oracle.com/database

sqrrl.com

trino.io

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.nebula-graph.io

docs.oracle.com/en/database

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Microsoft

Vesoft Inc.

Oracle

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2010

2019

1980

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

.NET

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

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

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

SQL standard access control

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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