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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. InfluxDB vs. LevelDB vs. Neo4j vs. openGauss

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsEmbeddable 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 offeringsAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score44.89
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­google/­leveldbneo4j.comgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdneo4j.com/­docsdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014GoogleNeo4j, Inc.Huawei and openGauss community
Initial release20102013201120072019
Current release2.7.6, April 20241.23, February 20215.20, May 20243.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangGoC++Java, ScalaC, C++, Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data and Stringsnoyesyes
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 indexesyesnonoyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenonoANSI SQL 2011
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
JSON over UDP
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
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++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonoyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsyes
Triggersyesnonoyes infovia event handleryes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneyes using Neo4j Fabrichorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynoneCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple rights management via user accountsnoUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Neo4j delivers graph technology that has been battle tested for performance and scale...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Neo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Real-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Over 800 commercial customers and over 4300 startups use Neo4j. Flagship customers...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Neo4j boasts the world's largest graph database ecosystem with more than 140 million...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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GPL v3 license that can be used all the places where you might use MySQL. Neo4j Commercial...
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