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System Properties Comparison NebulaGraph vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RDF4J vs. SwayDB

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NameNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSOracles in-memory data grid solutionRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelGraph DBMSKey-value storeRDF storeKey-value store
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Score2.36
Rank#124  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#126  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.72
Rank#234  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.03
Rank#385  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
www.oracle.com/­java/­coherencerdf4j.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.nebula-graph.iodocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencerdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperVesoft Inc.OracleSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Simer Plaha
Initial release2019200720042018
Current release14.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0commercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaScala
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeStrong typed schemaschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes 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.noyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsBrowser 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
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Java
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesno
Triggersyes infoLive Eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesCausal Clustering using Raft protocolyes, with selectable consistency levelnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDconfigurableACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing RocksDByes infooptionallyyes 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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationnono
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NebulaGraphOracle CoherenceRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameSwayDB
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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