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System Properties Comparison gStore vs. NebulaGraph vs. RisingWave

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Name

Description

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.04
Rank	#362	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	1.71
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#235	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Website

en.gstore.cn

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

www.risingwave.com/database

Technical documentation

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

docs.nebula-graph.io

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

Developer

Vesoft Inc.

RisingWave Labs

Initial release

2016

2019

2022

Current release

1.2, November 2023

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Strong typed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

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

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

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

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Role-based access control

Users and Roles

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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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