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System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. H2GIS vs. Neo4j vs. OceanBase vs. Sphinx

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NameCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.Spatial extension of H2Scalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value storeSpatial DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.32
Rank#283  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score44.46
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#147  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvwww.h2gis.orgneo4j.comen.oceanbase.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apiwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homeneo4j.com/­docsen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databasesphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperCloudflareCNRSNeo4j, Inc.OceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20182013200720102001
Current release5.19, April 20244.3.0, April 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoCommercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ScalaC++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free and schema-optionalyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
Java.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2yes infoUser defined Procedures and FunctionsPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modeno
Triggersnoyesyes infovia event handleryesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes using Neo4j Fabrichorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)Sharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on H2Causal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyMulti-source replication using Paxosnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Users, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno
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Specific characteristicsNeo4j delivers graph technology that has been battle tested for performance and scale...
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OceanBase Database is the world’s only native distributed database that has set new...
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Competitive advantagesNeo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
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High Availability : The five IDCs across three sites disaster recovery solution sets...
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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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OceanBase Database has helped over 400 customers across industries upgrade their...
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Market metricsNeo4j boasts the world's largest graph database ecosystem with more than 140 million...
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TPC-C No.1 Performance , achieved a result of 707.35 million tpmC in the TPC-C benchmark...
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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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Mulan PubL v2 license for open source community edition. Commercial license for enterprise...
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