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DBMS > IRONdb vs. NebulaGraph vs. Qdrant vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. NebulaGraph vs. Qdrant vs. SwayDB

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSVector DBMSKey-value store
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Score1.92
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#145  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#384  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
github.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
swaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.nebula-graph.ioqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Vesoft Inc.QdrantSimer Plaha
Initial release2017201920212018
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++RustScala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeStrong typed schemaschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes 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.yes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIBrowser 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
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luauser defined functionsno
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareCausal Clustering using Raft protocolCollection-level replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing RocksDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlKey-based authenticationno
More information provided by the system vendor
IRONdbNebulaGraphQdrantSwayDB
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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