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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. FileMaker vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Neo4j vs. RRDtool

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score4.36
Rank#72  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score44.89
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.claris.com/­filemakercloud.google.com/­datastoreneo4j.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsneo4j.com/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperAxibase CorporationClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogleNeo4j, Inc.Tobias Oetiker
Initial release20131983200820071999
Current release1558519.4.1, November 20215.20, May 20241.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ScalaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyes, details hereyesNumeric data only
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query language (GQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
PHP.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesusing Google App Engineyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsno
TriggersyesyesCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyes infovia event handlerno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingyes using Neo4j Fabricnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication using PaxosCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Causal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Users, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)no
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AxibaseFileMakerGoogle Cloud DatastoreNeo4jRRDtool
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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