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System Properties Comparison LevelDB vs. NebulaGraph vs. RDF4J vs. RethinkDB vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.75
Rank	#107	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	2.12
Rank	#125	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	2.84
Rank	#106	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.48
Rank	#260	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/google/leveldb

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

rdf4j.org

rethinkdb.com

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

docs.nebula-graph.io

rdf4j.org/documentation

rethinkdb.com/docs

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

Developer

Google

Vesoft Inc.

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2011

2019

2004

2009

2013

Current release

1.23, February 2021

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Java
PHP
Python

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

range based

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Atomic single-document operations

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

using RocksDB

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Role-based access control

yes

users and table-level permissions

simple password-based access control

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Specific characteristics

NebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantages

NebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenarios

Social networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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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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