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System Properties Comparison NebulaGraph vs. Riak KV vs. Solr vs. SwayDB vs. TiDB

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NameNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelGraph DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.23
Rank#116  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score4.25
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
solr.apache.orgswaydb.simer.aupingcap.com
Technical documentationdocs.nebula-graph.iowww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmldocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperVesoft Inc.OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesApache Software FoundationSimer PlahaPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release20192009200620182016
Current release3.2.0, December 20229.6.1, May 20248.1.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangJavaScalaGo, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
Data schemeStrong typed schemaschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingnoyes
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.nonoyesnono
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.restrictedyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSolr Parallel SQL Interfacenoyes
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
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsErlangJava pluginsnono
Triggersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Shardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesCausal Clustering using Raft protocolselectable replication factoryesnoneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reducenoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsno infolinks between data sets can be storednonoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnooptimistic lockingAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing RocksDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlyes, using Riak SecurityyesnoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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NebulaGraphRiak KVSolrSwayDBTiDB
Specific characteristicsNebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantagesNebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosSocial networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersCompanies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metricsAt our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsNebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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