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DBMS > EJDB vs. FileMaker vs. GridGain vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Neo4j

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. FileMaker vs. GridGain vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Neo4j

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Scalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offerings
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score44.46
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.gridgain.comwww.hawkular.orgneo4j.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guideneo4j.com/­docs
DeveloperSoftmotionsClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGridGain Systems, Inc.Community supported by Red HatNeo4j, Inc.
Initial release20121983200720142007
Current release19.4.1, November 2021GridGain 8.5.15.19, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJava, C++, .NetJavaJava, Scala
Server operating systemsserver-lessiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesyesyes
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.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnono
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP RESTBolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
PHPC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functions
Triggersnoyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes infovia event handler
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrayes using Neo4j Fabric
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Causal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnoUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)
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EJDBFileMakerGridGainHawkular MetricsNeo4j
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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