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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Neo4j

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Name

Description

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

Open source graph database

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.35
Rank	#144	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#12	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores

Score	51.04
Rank	#20	Overall
	#1	Graph DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

neo4j.com

Technical documentation

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

neo4j.com/docs

Developer

Franz Inc.

Neo4j, Inc.

Initial release

2004

2007

Current release

7.0.0, April 2020

4.2.4 , March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

GPL version3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

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

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free and schema-optional

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

bulk load of XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

pluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM

Object Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

User defined Procedures and Functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

available in in Enterprise Version only

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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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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