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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Hive vs. MonetDB vs. Neo4j vs. Oracle Coherence

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandradata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA relational database management system that stores data in columnsScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsOracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score44.46
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websiteblueflood.iohive.apache.orgwww.monetdb.orgneo4j.comwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikicwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homewww.monetdb.org/­Documentationneo4j.com/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperRackspaceApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookMonetDB BVNeo4j, Inc.Oracle
Initial release20132012200420072007
Current release3.1.3, April 2022Dec2023 (11.49), December 20235.19, April 202414.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCJava, ScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyesschema-free and schema-optionalschema-free
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes, in SQL, C, Ryes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsno
Triggersnonoyesyes infovia event handleryes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding via remote tablesyes using Neo4j FabricSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factornone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infooptionally
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication
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BluefloodHiveMonetDBNeo4jOracle Coherence
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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