DBMS > GridDB vs. Impala vs. Machbase vs. Neo4j

System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. Impala vs. Machbase vs. Neo4j

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Name

Description

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Scalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offerings

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	1.25
Rank	#157	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	17.56
Rank	#40	Overall
	#25	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#353	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	59.35
Rank	#19	Overall
	#1	Graph DBMS

Website

griddb.net

www.cloudera.com/products/open-source/apache-hadoop/impala.html

www.machbase.com

neo4j.com

Technical documentation

docs.griddb.net

docs.cloudera.com/documentation/enterprise/latest/topics/impala.html

machbase.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MAN/overview

neo4j.com/docs

Developer

Toshiba Corporation

Cloudera

Machbase

Neo4j, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2007

Current release

4.6, February 2021

4.0.0, July 2021

V6.5, August 2021

4.4.10, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

GPL version3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

Can also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

pluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC
ODBC

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM

Object Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

User defined Procedures and Functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes using Neo4j Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

available in in Enterprise Version only

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Eventual Consistency

Causal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID at container level

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

simple password-based access control

Users, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)

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Specific characteristics

GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Neo4j delivers graph technology that has been battle tested for performance and scale...
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Competitive advantages

1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Neo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Real-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network...
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Key customers

Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Over 800 commercial customers and over 4300 startups use Neo4j. Flagship customers...
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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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Neo4j boasts the world's largest graph database ecosystem with more than 140 million...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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GPL v3 license that can be used all the places where you might use MySQL. Neo4j Commercial...
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