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System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. NebulaGraph vs. PouchDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Spatial extension of SQLite

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.67
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	2.12
Rank	#125	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#116	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#351	Overall
	#47	Document stores

Website

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

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

pouchdb.com

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

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.nebula-graph.io

pouchdb.com/guides

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

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Hughes Technologies

Vesoft Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Alessandro Furieri

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1994

2019

2012

2008

2019

Current release

4.4, October 2021

7.1.1, June 2019

5.0.0, August 2020

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

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

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

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

server-less

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

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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

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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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