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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NebulaGraph vs. PieCloudDB vs. RavenDB vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	2.23
Rank	#116	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

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

www.openpie.com

ravendb.net

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.nebula-graph.io

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

Microsoft

Vesoft Inc.

OpenPie

Hibernating Rhinos

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2016

2019

2010

2011

Current release

2.1, January 2023

5.4, July 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

yes

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

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

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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Specific characteristics

NebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantages

NebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenarios

Social networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customers

Companies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities etc.,
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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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PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment；...
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