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System Properties Comparison LeanXcale vs. MaxDB vs. NebulaGraph vs. Pinecone vs. Postgres-XL

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NameLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSA managed, cloud-native vector databaseBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score2.14
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.leanxcale.commaxdb.sap.comgithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
www.pinecone.iowww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.nebula-graph.iodocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperLeanXcaleSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Vesoft Inc.Pinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release20151984201920192014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release7.9.10.12, February 202410 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C++C
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesStrong typed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, Booleanyes
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.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyes 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
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough Apache DerbyyesSQL-like query languagenoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
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
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
Python.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationCausal 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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing RocksDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
LeanXcaleMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DNebulaGraphPineconePostgres-XL
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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