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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graph Engine vs. jBASE vs. Neo4j

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA 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 modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Multivalue DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score44.46
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Websitebangdb.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.graphengine.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseneo4j.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9neo4j.com/­docs
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBGoogleMicrosoftRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Neo4j, Inc.
Initial release20122015201019912007
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20215.75.19, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, C++.NET and CJava, Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxhosted.NETAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnoyesoptionalyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnoyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnonoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
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
C#
C++
Java
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyesyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functions
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nonoyesyes infovia event handler
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingyes using Neo4j Fabric
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyesCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Causal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modenoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access 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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BangdbGoogle Cloud BigtableGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityjBASENeo4j
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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