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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. NebulaGraph vs. RethinkDB vs. StarRocks

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NameInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache Doris
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score22.12
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
Score2.58
Rank#105  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.95
Rank#193  Overall
#89  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
rethinkdb.comwww.starrocks.io
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.nebula-graph.iorethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperVesoft Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017The Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023
Initial release2013201920092020
Current release2.7.6, April 20242.4.1, August 20203.3, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoC++C++C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeStrong typed schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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.yesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
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
JDBC
MySQL protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functions
TriggersnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardingSharding inforange basedhorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyCausal Clustering using Raft protocolSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic single-document operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
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.yes infoDepending on used storage engineyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsRole-based access controlyes infousers and table-level permissionsRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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NebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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NebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Social networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Companies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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At our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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NebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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