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DBMS > GridGain vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LevelDB vs. Neo4j vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LevelDB vs. Neo4j vs. ObjectBox

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA multi-model DBMS and application serverEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeGraph DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.53
Rank#155  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#73  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#107  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score44.47
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score1.22
Rank#172  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­google/­leveldbneo4j.comobjectbox.io
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.intersystems.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdneo4j.com/­docsdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.InterSystemsGoogleNeo4j, Inc.ObjectBox Limited
Initial release20071997201120072017
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.12018.1.4, May 20201.23, February 20215.18.1, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC++Java, ScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesnoyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsno
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yesnoyes infovia event handlerno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneyes using Neo4j Fabricnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replicationnoneCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)yes
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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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