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DBMS > Dgraph vs. LevelDB vs. Neo4j vs. SpaceTime vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. LevelDB vs. Neo4j vs. SpaceTime vs. Tibero

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle
Primary database modelGraph DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.39
Rank#155  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score2.33
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score42.68
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.46
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Websitedgraph.iogithub.com/­google/­leveldbneo4j.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimeus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tibero
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdneo4j.com/­docstechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.html
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.GoogleNeo4j, Inc.MireoTmaxSoft
Initial release20162011200720202003
Current release1.23, February 20215.23, August 20247, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++Java, ScalaC++C and Assembler
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucenenoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoUser defined Procedures and FunctionsnoPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)
Triggersnonoyes infovia event handlernoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesnoneyes using Neo4j FabricFixed-grid hypercubeshorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or composite
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftnoneCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono infoplanned for next version
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesnoUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)yesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)
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DgraphLevelDBNeo4jSpaceTimeTibero
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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