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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Neo4j vs. Quasardb vs. RisingWave vs. Sequoiadb

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Graph DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score44.46
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.graphengine.ioneo4j.comquasar.aiwww.risingwave.com/­databasewww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualneo4j.com/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperMicrosoftNeo4j, Inc.quasardbRisingWave LabsSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20102007200920222013
Current release5.19, April 20243.14.1, January 20241.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation language.NET and CJava, ScalaC++RustC++
Server operating systems.NETLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free and schema-optionalschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryStandard SQL-types and JSONyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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 indexesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyes infowith tagsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIBolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
HTTP APIJDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoUser defined Procedures and FunctionsnoUDFs in Python or JavaJavaScript
Triggersnoyes infovia event handlernonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningyes using Neo4j FabricSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlySource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modeyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers and Rolessimple password-based access control
More information provided by the system vendor
Graph Engine infoformer name: TrinityNeo4jQuasardbRisingWaveSequoiadb
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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