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Name

Description

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.11
Rank	#168	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	3.66
Rank	#91	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#127	Overall
	#2	Spatial DBMS

Website

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

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.nebula-graph.io

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Vesoft Inc.

Sybase, SAP

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2019

1993

2008

Current release

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Proprietary native API
Query language nGQL

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C++
Go
Java
Python

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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