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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. EJDB vs. GreptimeDB vs. Neo4j vs. RavenDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score44.46
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgreptime.comneo4j.comravendb.net
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.greptime.comneo4j.com/­docsravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaSoftmotionsGreptime Inc.Neo4j, Inc.Hibernating Rhinos
Initial release20162012202220072010
Current release5.20, May 20245.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCRustJava, ScalaC#
Server operating systemshostedserver-lessAndroid
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-free and schema-optionalschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesno
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.nono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyesnoSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
in-process shared librarygRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavanoPythonyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsyes
Triggersnonoyes infovia event handleryes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingyes using Neo4j FabricSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoSimple rights management via user accountsUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)Authorization levels configured per client per database
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Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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Neo4j delivers graph technology that has been battle tested for performance and scale...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Neo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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Real-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Over 800 commercial customers and over 4300 startups use Neo4j. Flagship customers...
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Neo4j boasts the world's largest graph database ecosystem with more than 140 million...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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GPL v3 license that can be used all the places where you might use MySQL. Neo4j Commercial...
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