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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. NebulaGraph vs. Newts vs. Qdrant vs. SingleStore

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSTime Series DBMS based on CassandraA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score2.23
Rank#116  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score5.38
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
opennms.github.io/­newtsgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.singlestore.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.nebula-graph.iogithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiqdrant.tech/­documentationdocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperSpotifyVesoft Inc.OpenNMS GroupQdrantSingleStore Inc.
Initial release20142019201420212013
Current release8.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaRustC++, Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux info64 bit version required
Data schemeschema-freeStrong typed schemaschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes 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.noyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenonoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Browser 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
Java API
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
Java.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesCausal Clustering using Raft protocolselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraCollection-level replicationSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing RocksDByesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlnoKey-based authenticationFine grained access control via users, groups and roles
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HeroicNebulaGraphNewtsQdrantSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL
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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SingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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Typical application scenariosSocial networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Driving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customersCompanies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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IEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsAt our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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Customers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsNebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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