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Description

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

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Score	1.92
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

pouchdb.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.nebula-graph.io

docs.opengemini.org/guide

pouchdb.com/guides

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Vesoft Inc.

Huawei and openGemini community

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2019

2022

2012

2000

Current release

1.1, July 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

server-less

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

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

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

yes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

Administrators and common users accounts

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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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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