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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Altibase vs. Neo4j vs. OpenEdge vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Scalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offerings

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#315	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	44.89
Rank	#21	Overall
	#1	Graph DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

altibase.com

neo4j.com

www.progress.com/openedge

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

neo4j.com/docs

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Altibase

Neo4j, Inc.

Progress Software Corporation

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2016

1999

2007

1984

2021

Current release

2.1, December 2018

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

5.20, May 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

GPL version3, commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Can also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

pluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL-92

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM

Object Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Java

.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

User defined Procedures and Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

yes using Neo4j Fabric

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

available in in Enterprise Version only

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Causal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)

Users and groups

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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