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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. LevelDB vs. Neo4j

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonFujitsu Enterprise Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricEnterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.Embeddable 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 offerings
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.31
Rank#285  Overall
#129  Relational DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score44.46
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.postgresql.fastware.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldbneo4j.com
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.postgresql.fastware.com/­product-manualsgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdneo4j.com/­docs
DeveloperElasticPostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software TechnologyGoogleNeo4j, Inc.
Initial release201020112007
Current release8.6, January 2023Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 20221.23, February 20215.20, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++Java, Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-freeschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnoyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functions
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesnoyes infovia event handler
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingpartitioning by range, list and by hashnoneyes using Neo4j Fabric
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnoneCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integration
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)
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ElasticsearchFujitsu Enterprise PostgresLevelDBNeo4j
Specific characteristics100% compatible with community PostgreSQL
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Neo4j delivers graph technology that has been battle tested for performance and scale...
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Competitive advantagesBuilt-in TDE and Data Masking security. In-Memory Columnar Index, and a high speed...
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Neo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
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Typical application scenariosTransactional payments applications, reporting and mixed workloads.
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Real-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 metricsOver 30 years experience in database technology. Over 20 years in Postgres development...
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Neo4j boasts the world's largest graph database ecosystem with more than 140 million...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCore based licensing
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GPL v3 license that can be used all the places where you might use MySQL. Neo4j Commercial...
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