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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Greenplum vs. jBASE vs. Neo4j

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offerings
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMSMultivalue DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score44.89
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.gigaspaces.comgreenplum.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseneo4j.com
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.greenplum.orgdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9neo4j.com/­docs
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsGigaspaces TechnologiesPivotal Software Inc.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Neo4j, Inc.
Initial release20182000200519912007
Current release2.3, January 202115.5, September 20207.0.0, September 20235.75.20, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJava, Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyes
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 infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatayes infosince Version 4.2yes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.SQL-99 for query and DML statementsyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICno
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesyesyesyesyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functions
Triggersnoyes, event driven architectureyesyesyes infovia event handler
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingShardingShardingyes using Neo4j Fabric
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replicationyesCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsnoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)
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AnzoGraph DBGigaSpacesGreenplumjBASENeo4j
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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