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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Neo4j vs. Newts vs. SiteWhere vs. TimesTen

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsTime Series DBMS based on CassandraM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score44.89
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orgneo4j.comopennms.github.io/­newtsgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsneo4j.com/­docsgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikisitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Neo4j, Inc.OpenNMS GroupSiteWhereOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20022007201420101998
Current release1.1, February 20175.20, May 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ScalaJavaJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalschema-freepredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucenenonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)nononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaC
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoUser defined Procedures and FunctionsnoPL/SQL
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infovia event handlernono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes using Neo4j FabricSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)noUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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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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