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DBMS > HBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. IRONdb vs. NebulaGraph vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. IRONdb vs. NebulaGraph vs. RDF4J

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelWide column storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMSRDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score2.14
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
rdf4j.org
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.nebula-graph.iordf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetIBMCirconus LLC.Vesoft Inc.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20082017201720192004
Current release2.3.4, January 20212.0V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C and C++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-freeStrong typed schemayes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnononoyes 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.yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
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
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javayesyes, in Luauser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Active-active shard replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareCausal Clustering using Raft protocolnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nonoACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes infousing RocksDByes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access controlno
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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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