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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. NebulaGraph vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PostGIS vs. PouchDB

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.23
Rank#116  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlpostgis.netpouchdb.com
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.nebula-graph.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlpostgis.net/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperCNRSVesoft Inc.Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20132019198420052012
Current release7.4.1.1, 20213.4.2, February 20247.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxHP Open VMSserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesStrong typed schemaFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes 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.yesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsBrowser 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
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2user defined functionsuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2Causal Clustering using Raft protocolyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes, on a single nodeACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing RocksDByesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Role-based access controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLno
More information provided by the system vendor
H2GISNebulaGraphOracle RdbPostGISPouchDB
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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