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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. FileMaker vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Db2 vs. Neo4j

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  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.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offerings
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.30
Rank#294  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score49.73
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#374  Overall
#38  Time Series DBMS
Score127.49
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score44.47
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.hawkular.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2neo4j.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2neo4j.com/­docs
DeveloperSoftmotionsClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleCommunity supported by Red HatIBMNeo4j, Inc.
Initial release2012198320141983 infohost version2007
Current release19.4.1, November 202112.1, October 20165.19, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC and C++Java, Scala
Server operating systemsserver-lessiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-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 formatno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Bolt 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
PHPGo
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyesyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functions
Triggersnoyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesyes infovia event handler
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Versionyes using Neo4j Fabric
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Causal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual 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 possibleyesnoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID
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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)
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EJDBFileMakerHawkular MetricsIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2Neo4j
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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