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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. NebulaGraph vs. RavenDB vs. Sqrrl vs. TerarkDB

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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 engineA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Graph DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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
Score2.14
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
ravendb.netsqrrl.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.nebula-graph.ioravendb.net/­docsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperMicrosoftVesoft Inc.Hibernating RhinosAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20102019201020122016
Current release5.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availablecommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation language.NET and CC++C#JavaC++
Server operating systems.NETLinuxLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesStrong typed schemaschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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.nonono
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.yesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (RQL)nono
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
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyesnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingShardingSharding infomaking use of Hadoopnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesCausal Clustering using Raft protocolMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoopnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyDefault 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.Immediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entityno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 RocksDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)no
More information provided by the system vendor
Graph Engine infoformer name: TrinityNebulaGraphRavenDBSqrrlTerarkDB
Specific characteristicsNebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantagesNebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenariosSocial networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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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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Graph Engine infoformer name: TrinityNebulaGraphRavenDBSqrrlTerarkDB
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