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DBMS > H2GIS vs. HBase vs. Neo4j vs. SpatiaLite vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. HBase vs. Neo4j vs. SpatiaLite vs. TinkerGraph

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsSpatial extension of SQLiteA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score44.46
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orghbase.apache.orgneo4j.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indextinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homehbase.apache.org/­book.htmlneo4j.com/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperCNRSApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetNeo4j, Inc.Alessandro Furieri
Initial release20132008200720082009
Current release2.3.4, January 20215.19, April 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava, ScalaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-free and schema-optionalyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2yes infoCoprocessors in Javayes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsnono
Triggersyesyesyes infovia event handleryesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes using Neo4j Fabricnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Causal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlynonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)nono
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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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