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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Neo4j

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.07
Rank	#322	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	18.92
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	60.14
Rank	#19	Overall
	#1	Graph DBMS

Website

bitnine.net

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

neo4j.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

neo4j.com/docs

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Neo4j, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2007

Current release

2.1, December 2018

4.4.7, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

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

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

pluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM

Object Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

User defined Procedures and Functions

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

via event handler

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

yes using Neo4j Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

available in in Enterprise Version only

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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

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