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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. NebulaGraph vs. TerminusDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

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

terminusdb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.nebula-graph.io

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Vesoft Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1991

2019

2018

1987

Current release

5.7

11.0.0, January 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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.

yes

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

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

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

Journaling Streams

Source-replica replication

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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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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