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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. Neo4j vs. ObjectBox vs. OushuDB vs. Prometheus

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NameHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBScalable, 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 MobileA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score44.89
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#355  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websitehsqldb.orgneo4j.comobjectbox.iowww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBprometheus.io
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlneo4j.com/­docsdocs.objectbox.iowww.oushu.com/­documentationprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperNeo4j, Inc.ObjectBox LimitedOushu
Initial release2001200720172015
Current release2.7.2, June 20235.20, May 20244.0.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ScalaC and C++Go
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free and schema-optionalyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesNumeric data only
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.nonono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoFull-featured ANSI SQL supportno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
Proprietary native APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.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
C
C++
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsnoyesno
Triggersyesyes infovia event handlernoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes using Neo4j FabricnoneyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyonline/offline synchronization between client and serveryes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoHadoop integrationno
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 Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
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 controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)yesKerberos, SSL and role based accessno
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HyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDBNeo4jObjectBoxOushuDBPrometheus
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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