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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Blazegraph vs. jBASE vs. LMDB vs. Neo4j

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offerings
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Multivalue DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
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Score0.82
Rank#205  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#217  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score1.36
Rank#157  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#120  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score42.68
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbblazegraph.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbneo4j.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9www.lmdb.tech/­docneo4j.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaBlazegraphRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)SymasNeo4j, Inc.
Initial release2006199120112007
Current release2.1.5, March 20195.70.9.32, January 20245.23, August 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJava, Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesoptionalyes
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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSPARQL is used as query languageEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesnoyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functions
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes infovia event handler
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingnoneyes using Neo4j Fabric
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyesnoneCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in Graphsnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Access rights can be defined down to the item levelnoUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)
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Alibaba Cloud PolarDBBlazegraphjBASELMDBNeo4j
Specific characteristicsPolarDB, previously ApsaraDB for PolarDB, is a cloud-native relational database designed...
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Neo4j delivers graph technology that has been battle tested for performance and scale...
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Competitive advantagesWebinar: Top Scientists Live: Tech Secrets to Double 11's Success Revealed. White...
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Neo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
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Typical application scenariosCreating a Robust Cloud-Based Database for Fintech, E-Commerce and Gaming. Learn...
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Real-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 modelsSpecification and pricing. You can use either of the following billing methods to...
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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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