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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. MariaDB vs. Neo4j

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Name

Description

High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMS

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. With MariaDB ColumnStore a column-oriented storage engine is available too.

Open source graph database

Primary database model

Document store info

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS info

with OQGraph storage engine

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Score	0.95
Rank	#170	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores

Score	90.92
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	50.18
Rank	#21	Overall
	#1	Graph DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

mariadb.com info

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org info

Site of MariaDB Foundation

neo4j.com

Technical documentation

franz.com/agraph/support/documentation/current/agraph-introduction.html

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

neo4j.com/docs

Developer

Franz Inc.

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server) info

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Neo4j, Inc.

Initial release

2004

2009

2007

Current release

7.0.0, April 2020

10.4.12, January 2020

4.1.1, July 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial info

Limited community edition free

Open Source info

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source info

GPL version3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Azure Database for MariaDB: A fully managed, scalable MariaDB relational database with high availability and security built in at no extra cost
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Implementation language

C and C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows info

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux

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

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free and schema-optional

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

bulk load of XML files possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

pluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM info

Object Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

User defined Procedures and Functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Horizontal partitioning, sharding with Spider storage engine or Galera cluster info

Partitioning by range, list, hash, key

none

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication info

using MariaDB Galera Cluster
Source-replica replication

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol info

available in in Enterprise Version only

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

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

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts info

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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Specific characteristics

Knowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Open source database from the creators of MySQL, enhanced with enterprise tools and...
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Neo4j is a native graph database platform that is built to store, query, analyze...
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Competitive advantages

AllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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High availability, scalability, performance beyond MySQL and other databases.
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Neo4j database is the only transactional database that combines everything you need...
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Typical application scenarios

Web, SaaS and Cloud operational/transactional applications that require high availability,...
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Real-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network...
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Key customers

Booking.com, Wikipedia, Google, Canal+, ClubMed, Deutsche Telekom, La Poste, Virgin...
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Over 300 commercial customers and over 750 startups use Neo4j. Flagship customers...
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Market metrics

MariaDB is the default database in the LAMP stack supplied by Red Hat and SUSE Linux,...
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Neo4j boasts the world's largest graph database ecosystem with more than a 15 million...
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Licensing and pricing models

GPL v3 license that can be used all the places where you might use MySQL. Neo4j Commercial...
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News

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10 July 2020

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22 June 2020

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5 June 2020

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25 May 2020

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12 May 2020

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31 July 2020

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29 July 2020

Introducing Neo4j Partner Program: An Interview with Matt Connon
27 July 2020

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25 July 2020