DBMS > InterSystems IRIS vs. NebulaGraph vs. Sequoiadb vs. SWC-DB vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. NebulaGraph vs. Sequoiadb vs. SWC-DB vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	2.23
Rank	#116	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

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

www.sequoiadb.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

docs.nebula-graph.io

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

InterSystems

Vesoft Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Alex Kashirin

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2018

2019

2013

2020

2012

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

0.5, April 2021

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

Strong typed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

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.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

proprietary protocol using JSON

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C++

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Role-based access control

simple password-based access control

yes

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Specific characteristics

InterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Companies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metrics

At our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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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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