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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Neo4j vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenTSDB vs. OrientDB

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteScalable, 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 MobileScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score44.46
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Websitewww.gridgain.comneo4j.comobjectbox.ioopentsdb.netorientdb.org
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlneo4j.com/­docsdocs.objectbox.ioopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.Neo4j, Inc.ObjectBox Limitedcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release20072007201720112010
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.15.20, May 20243.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJava, ScalaC and C++JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeyesschema-free and schema-optionalyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnononoSQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
Proprietary native APIHTTP API
Telnet API
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.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
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes infoUser defined Procedures and FunctionsnonoJava, Javascript
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infovia event handlernonoHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes using Neo4j FabricnoneSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Causal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyonline/offline synchronization between client and serverselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nononono infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyesnoyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)yesnoAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable
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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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