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System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. Interbase vs. IRONdb vs. Memgraph vs. NebulaGraph

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NameInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score2.23
Rank#116  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Websiteignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/memgraph.comgithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedmemgraph.com/­docsdocs.nebula-graph.io
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.EmbarcaderoCirconus LLC.Memgraph LtdVesoft Inc.
Initial release20051984201720172019
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 2019V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCCC and C++C and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalStrong typed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes 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.nono infoexport as XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesnoyes 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.
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIBolt protocol
Cypher query language
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
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes, in Luauser defined functions
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationInterbase Change Viewsconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication using RAFTCausal Clustering using Raft protocol
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes inforelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID infowith snapshot isolationACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes infousing RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers, roles and permissionsRole-based access control
More information provided by the system vendor
InfobrightInterbaseIRONdbMemgraphNebulaGraph
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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NebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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NebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Social 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 modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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NebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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