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System Properties Comparison NebulaGraph vs. Rockset vs. SAP IQ vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.92
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

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

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

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

Technical documentation

docs.nebula-graph.io

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

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

Developer

Vesoft Inc.

Rockset

SAP, formerly Sybase

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2019

1994

2008

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

commercial

Open Source

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

yes

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

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.

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate 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

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

NebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantages

NebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenarios

Social networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Key customers

Companies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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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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