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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Neo4j vs. Realm vs. TerminusDB

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Scalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSGraph DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score44.46
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.geomesa.orgneo4j.comrealm.ioterminusdb.com
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourceswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlneo4j.com/­docsrealm.io/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperCCRi and othersNeo4j, Inc.Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20192014200720142018
Current release5.0.0, May 20245.20, May 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaJava, ScalaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free and schema-optionalyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryyes
Triggersnonoyes infovia event handleryes infoChange Listenersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layeryes using Neo4j FabricnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasdepending on storage layerCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlynoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenoyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)yesRole-based access control
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Amazon DocumentDBGeoMesaNeo4jRealmTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
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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