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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. BigchainDB vs. EJDB vs. Neo4j

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. BigchainDB vs. EJDB vs. Neo4j

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Scalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offerings
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeDocument storeGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.78
Rank#221  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#302  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.30
Rank#294  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score44.47
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbneo4j.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdneo4j.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaCambridge SemanticsSoftmotionsNeo4j, Inc.
Initial release20162018201620122007
Current release2.3, January 20215.18.1, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonCJava, Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxserver-lessLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesnononoyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.nonono
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared libraryBolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Java
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javauser defined functions and aggregatesnoyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functions
Triggersnononoyes infovia event handler
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceAutomatic shardingShardingnoneyes using Neo4j Fabric
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusterselectable replication factornoneCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesKerberos/HDFS data loadingnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infonot needed in graphsnono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and rolesyesnoUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)
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Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeAnzoGraph DBBigchainDBEJDBNeo4j
Specific characteristicsNeo4j delivers graph technology that has been battle tested for performance and scale...
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Competitive advantagesNeo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
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Typical application scenariosReal-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network...
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Key customersOver 800 commercial customers and over 4300 startups use Neo4j. Flagship customers...
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Market metricsNeo4j boasts the world's largest graph database ecosystem with more than 140 million...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGPL v3 license that can be used all the places where you might use MySQL. Neo4j Commercial...
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