DBMS > BoltDB vs. Neo4j vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Neo4j vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
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Score	44.46
Rank	#23	Overall
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Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
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Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

neo4j.com

www.postgres-xl.org

rocksdb.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

neo4j.com/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Neo4j, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2013

2007

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2013

2011

Current release

5.19, April 2024

10 R1, October 2018

8.11.4, April 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL version3, commercial licenses available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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

Linux
macOS

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

pluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM

Object Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

User defined Procedures and Functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes using Neo4j Fabric

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

available in in Enterprise Version only

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

MVCC

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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