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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Neo4j vs. OrigoDB vs. Qdrant vs. RDF4J

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMSRDF store
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Score1.21
Rank#182  Overall
#83  Relational DBMS
Score44.36
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#379  Overall
#51  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.25
Rank#176  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.72
Rank#234  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitealtibase.comneo4j.comorigodb.comgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
rdf4j.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsneo4j.com/­docsorigodb.com/­docsqdrant.tech/­documentationrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAltibaseNeo4j, Inc.Robert Friberg et alQdrantSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release199920072009 infounder the name LiveDB20212004
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20235.18.1, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++Java, ScalaC#RustJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free and schema-optionalyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes
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 infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92nononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsyesyes
Triggersyesyes infovia event handleryes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes using Neo4j Fabrichorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlySource-replica replicationCollection-level replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsdepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
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-standardUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)Role based authorizationKey-based authenticationno
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AltibaseNeo4jOrigoDBQdrantRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame
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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