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System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. IRONdb vs. NebulaGraph

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Name

Description

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#282	Overall
	#22	Graph DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#343	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#150	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/hugegraph

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database

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

Technical documentation

hugegraph.github.io/hugegraph-doc

docs.circonus.com/irondb

docs.nebula-graph.io

Developer

Baidu

Circonus LLC.

Vesoft Inc.

Initial release

2018

2017

2019

Current release

0.9

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Strong typed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

also supports composite index and range index

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

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

HTTP API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Proprietary native API
Query language nGQL

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C++
Go
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes, in Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

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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