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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. NebulaGraph vs. RDF4J vs. Sqrrl

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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

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

RDF store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

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Score	0.09
Rank	#343	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

greptime.com

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

rdf4j.org

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

docs.nebula-graph.io

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Greptime Inc.

Vesoft Inc.

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

2022

2019

2004

2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Rust

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

Strong typed schema

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

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.

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

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

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Java
PHP
Python

Actionscript
C

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

none

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Simple rights management via user accounts

Role-based access control

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

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Specific characteristics

GreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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NebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantages

- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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NebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenarios

For IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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Social networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Key customers

Greptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Companies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metrics

GreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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At our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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Licensing and pricing models

GreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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NebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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