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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Hive vs. Neo4j vs. OpenTenBase

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTenBase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsAn enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score44.46
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.hawkular.orghive.apache.orgneo4j.comgithub.com/­OpenTenBase/­OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidecwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homeneo4j.com/­docsdocs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/­en
DeveloperSoftmotionsCommunity supported by Red HatApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookNeo4j, Inc.OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent
Initial release2012201420122007
Current release3.1.3, April 20225.19, April 20242.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoBSD-3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaJavaJava, Scala
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free and schema-optionalyes
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.no
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
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
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
Go
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functions
Triggersnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyes infovia event handleryes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingyes using Neo4j FabricSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factorCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
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 controlnonoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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EJDBHawkular MetricsHiveNeo4jOpenTenBase
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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