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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Geode vs. Neo4j vs. Sadas Engine

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score44.89
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comgeode.apache.orgneo4j.comwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsgeode.apache.org/­docsneo4j.com/­docswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperAltibaseOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Neo4j, Inc.SADAS s.r.l.
Initial release1999200220072006
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.1, February 20175.20, May 20248.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availablecommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava, ScalaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like query language (OQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functionsyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsno
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infovia event handlerno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes using Neo4j Fabrichorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodeACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights per client and object definableUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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AltibaseGeodeNeo4jSadas Engine
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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