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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. JaguarDB vs. NebulaGraph vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.jaguardb.com

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

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.nebula-graph.io

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

DataJaguar, Inc.

Vesoft Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2008

2015

2019

2020

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

3.3 July 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Strong typed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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.

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

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

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

rights management via user accounts

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

NebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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