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DBMS > Heroic vs. NebulaGraph vs. RDFox vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. NebulaGraph vs. RDFox vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Titan

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score2.23
Rank#116  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
www.oxfordsemantic.techwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.nebula-graph.iodocs.oxfordsemantic.techgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperSpotifyVesoft Inc.Oxford Semantic TechnologiesSybase, SAPAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20142019201719932012
Current release6.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeStrong typed schemayes infoRDF schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
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.yesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoyesno
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
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
C
Java
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesyes
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesCausal Clustering using Raft protocolreplication via a shared file systemMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing RocksDByesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlRoles, resources, and access typesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
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HeroicNebulaGraphRDFoxSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADSTitan
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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