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DBMS > H2GIS vs. NebulaGraph vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. NebulaGraph vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.23
Rank#116  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
www.snowflake.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.nebula-graph.iodocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperCNRSVesoft Inc.Snowflake Computing Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release2013201920142011
Current release4.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++C#
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedWindows
Data schemeyesStrong typed schemayes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nonoyes
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.no
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyesno
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
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2user defined functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2Causal Clustering using Raft protocolyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing RocksDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Role-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationno
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H2GISNebulaGraphSnowflakeSTSdb
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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