DBMS > AgensGraph vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Neo4j

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Neo4j

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Name

Description

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

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

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
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.20
Rank	#321	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	44.46
Rank	#23	Overall
	#1	Graph DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.gigaspaces.com

hazelcast.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

neo4j.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

neo4j.com/docs

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Gigaspaces Technologies

Hazelcast

Microsoft

Neo4j, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2000

2008

2014

2007

Current release

2.1, December 2018

15.5, September 2020

5.3.6, November 2023

5.19, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

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, C++, .Net

Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

JSON types

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

pluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table 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

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

JavaScript

yes

User defined Procedures and Functions

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Events

JavaScript

yes

via event handler

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes using Neo4j Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

Replicated Map

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

available in in Enterprise Version only

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

Role-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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

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