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DBMS > LMDB vs. NebulaGraph vs. SiteWhere vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison LMDB vs. NebulaGraph vs. SiteWhere vs. Sphinx

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NameLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score2.14
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbgithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
github.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheresphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.lmdb.tech/­docdocs.nebula-graph.iositewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperSymasVesoft Inc.SiteWhereSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2011201920102001
Current release0.9.32, January 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeStrong typed schemapredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
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.nonono
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.noyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsBrowser 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
HTTP RESTProprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on HBaseSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneCausal Clustering using Raft protocolselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
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 dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing RocksDByesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno
More information provided by the system vendor
LMDBNebulaGraphSiteWhereSphinx
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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