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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Neo4j vs. Sphinx vs. SWC-DB vs. TerminusDB

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Scalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSGraph DBMSSearch engineWide column storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score44.89
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orgneo4j.comsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
terminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlneo4j.com/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperCCRi and othersNeo4j, Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.Alex KashirinDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20142007200120202018
Current release5.0.0, May 20245.20, May 20243.5.1, February 20230.5, April 202111.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaJava, ScalaC++C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-free and schema-optionalyesschema-freeyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsBolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
Proprietary protocolProprietary protocol
Thrift
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsnonoyes
Triggersnoyes infovia event handlernonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layeryes using Neo4j FabricSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlynoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)noRole-based access control
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GeoMesaNeo4jSphinxSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column DatabaseTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
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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