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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Neo4j vs. OpenQM vs. SiteWhere vs. TDengine

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  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 metricScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelSearch engineGraph DBMSMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score44.89
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchneo4j.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheregithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlneo4j.com/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperElasticNeo4j, Inc.Rocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsSiteWhereTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20102007199320102019
Current release8.6, January 20235.20, May 20243.4-123.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ScalaJavaC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-free and schema-optionalyes infowith some exceptionspredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenononoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
HTTP RESTJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsyesno
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infovia event handleryesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes using Neo4j FabricyesSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
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, allCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.Memcached and Redis integrationno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)Access rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes
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ElasticsearchNeo4jOpenQM infoalso called QMSiteWhereTDengine
Specific characteristicsNeo4j delivers graph technology that has been battle tested for performance and scale...
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TDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesNeo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
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High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosReal-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network...
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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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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TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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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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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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