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DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NebulaGraph vs. Quasardb vs. RDF4J vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NebulaGraph vs. Quasardb vs. RDF4J vs. SiteWhere

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelSearch engineGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSRDF storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score2.14
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchgithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
quasar.airdf4j.orggithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.nebula-graph.iodoc.quasar.ai/­masterrdf4j.org/­documentationsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperMicrosoftVesoft Inc.quasardbSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.SiteWhere
Initial release20152019200920042010
Current releaseV13.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesStrong typed schemaschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemaspredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
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 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 infowith tagsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIBrowser 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 APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingnoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceCausal Clustering using Raft protocolSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing RocksDByes infoby using LevelDByes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationRole-based access controlCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
More information provided by the system vendor
Microsoft Azure AI SearchNebulaGraphQuasardbRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameSiteWhere
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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