DBMS > EJDB vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Neo4j vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Neo4j vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Spatial extension of H2

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

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

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	44.89
Rank	#21	Overall
	#1	Graph DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.h2gis.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

neo4j.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

neo4j.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Softmotions

CNRS

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Neo4j, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

2010

2007

2013

Current release

5.20, May 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version3, commercial licenses available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

Linux

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

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

pluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM

Object Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

User defined Procedures and Functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes using Neo4j Fabric

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

available in in Enterprise Version only

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Optimistic locking

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

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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

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