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Name

Description

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Scalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offerings

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.78
Rank	#130	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#318	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#30	Graph DBMS
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	59.35
Rank	#19	Overall
	#1	Graph DBMS

Score	5.21
Rank	#78	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

bangdb.com

neo4j.com

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

bangdb.com/developer

neo4j.com/docs

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Neo4j, Inc.

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2019

2012

2007

2010

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

4.4.9, July 2022

3.1.9, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

GPL version3, commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java, Scala

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

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

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

pluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM

Object Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

User defined Procedures and Functions

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

via event handler

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

yes using Neo4j Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

available in in Enterprise Version only

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes (enterprise version only)

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

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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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

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