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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. JaguarDB vs. Neo4j vs. Sequoiadb

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgnitePerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelColumnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.48
Rank#150  Overall
#1  Columnar
#26  Key-value stores
#2  Object oriented DBMS
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
#16  Vector DBMS
Score42.68
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#263  Overall
#41  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.jaguardb.comneo4j.comwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlneo4j.com/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.DataJaguar, Inc.Neo4j, Inc.Sequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release2007201520072013
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.13.3 July 20235.23, August 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial, open sourceOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQLC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJava, ScalaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
LinuxLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free and schema-optionalschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes 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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyes infoUser defined Procedures and FunctionsJavaScript
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)noyes infovia event handlerno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes using Neo4j FabricSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replicationCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations
rights management via user accountsUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)simple password-based access control
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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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