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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Neo4j vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Riak KV vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score44.46
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score1.32
Rank#162  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webneo4j.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.ioneo4j.com/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperChris DavisNeo4j, Inc.OracleOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesVictoriaMetrics
Initial release20062007201120092018
Current release5.19, April 202423.3, December 20233.2.0, December 2022v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJava, ScalaJavaErlangGo
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeyesschema-free and schema-optionalSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesoptionalno
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 Luceneyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoUser defined Procedures and FunctionsnoErlangno
Triggersnoyes infovia event handlernoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes using Neo4j FabricShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureselectable replication factorSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)nono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesyes
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.yes infooff heap cacheno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)Access rights for users and rolesyes, using Riak Security
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GraphiteNeo4jOracle NoSQLRiak KVVictoriaMetrics
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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