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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Coveo vs. Google BigQuery vs. Neo4j

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Name

Description

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

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#114	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	44.46
Rank	#23	Overall
	#1	Graph DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.coveo.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

neo4j.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.coveo.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

neo4j.com/docs

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Coveo

Google

Neo4j, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2010

2007

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

5.19, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

GPL version3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

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

Data scheme

schema-free

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM

Object Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

User defined Procedures and Functions

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

via event handler

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

yes

none

yes using Neo4j Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

available in in Enterprise Version only

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes (enterprise version only)

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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

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